Now I shall go up, at once, and join the Virginian regiment which is accompanying them.

I shall join that, instead of either of the line regiments, as I can leave when I like.

Besides, if the squire is able to get me a commission, it would have been pleasanter for me to have been fighting here as a volunteer, than as a private in the line.
"By the way, nobody thinks there will be much fighting, so don't let my mother worry herself about me; but, at any rate, a march through the great forests of this country, with a chance of a brush with the redskins, will be great fun.

Perhaps, by the time it is over, I may get a letter from you saying that I have got my commission.

As I hear there is a chance of a regular war between the French and us out here, the commission may be for a regiment on this side." After finishing his letters, and giving them to the ship's corporal to place in the next post bag, James said goodbye to his messmates, and prepared to go on shore.