When I found I must go as a common soldier, mixed up with all sorts of people, I couldn't stand it.

I applied for my discharge; but they would not give it to me, and I went home without it." "That looks very much like desertion," added Christy, and the major went up somewhat in his estimation.
"But it was not desertion; for I applied for my discharge, and all they had to do was to give it to me.

They understood it so, for they did not come to the house after me," argued Percy.

"Then, when my father went to Nassau, he took me with him.

But the surgeon said I was not fit for the army, for I had indications of varicose veins.