They will, of course, occupy the tent with the non-commissioned officers, and will mess with them.
Being engaged as scouts, only, they will in other respects be free from anything like strictness.

I trust that you will do what you can to make them comfortable." The sergeant saluted, and led the two scouts over to the tent occupied by himself and the other non-commissioned officers, and the roars of laughter that issued from it in the course of the evening, at the anecdotes of the scouts, showed that the newcomers were likely to be highly popular characters in their mess..