And Martin Culpepper made a great presentation speech in which he said that to the infantry, cavalry, and artillery arms of military service, "C" Company had added the "vox populi." But the night after the presentation Oscar Fernald and Watts McHurdie crawled under the captain's tent and stole the sword and pawned it for beer, and there was a sound of revelry by night.
When they found the great camp near Springfield, it seemed to John Barclay that all the soldiers in the world were gathered.

It is difficult for a boy under a dozen years to remember things consecutively; because boys do not do things consecutively.

They flit around like butterflies, and so the picture that they make of events jumps from scene to scene.

One film on a roll of John's memory showed a hot August day in the camp of "C" Company; the men are hurrying about the place.

The tents are down; the boys--John and Bob--are kicking around the vacant camp looking for trophies.