First Volunteer Cavalry, U.S.A., Colonel Leonard Wood commanding." "The very one!" cried Ridge.

"Why didn't I think of it before?
How I wish I could join it." "And why not ?" "I thought there were so many applications that the ranks were more than full." "So there may be, but, like lots of other full things, there's always room for one more, if he's of the right sort." "Do you imagine I would stand the slightest chance of getting in ?" "I should say you would.

With me ready to use my influence in your behalf, and me and Teddy the chums we are, besides you being the rider you are.

Why the first question Teddy asks of an applicant is 'Can you ride a horse ?' And when you answer, 'Sir, I am the man who wrote--I mean who won the silver hurdles at the last Yokohama gym.', he'll be so anxious to have you in the regiment that he'd resign in your favor rather than lose you.

Oh, if I only had your backing do you suppose I'd be a mere private Terror?
No, siree, I'd be corporal or colonel or something of that kind, sure as you're born.