"You are the most military-looking party I have yet seen.

They are young, but none the worse for that." "There is nothing military about them, except that they march four abreast," he said, with a smile, "but for the work we have come to do, drill will not be necessary.

I have raised this band on Jean Martin's estate, sir, and with your permission I propose to call them 'Cathelineau's scouts.' It seemed, to my brother and myself, that you sorely need scouts to inform you of the movements of the enemy, the roads by which they are approaching, their force and order.

I have therefore raised this little body of lads of my own age.

They will remain with me permanently, as long as the occasion needs.