We have all done our best, but we have missed you terribly; and the men don't seem to take quite as much pains with their drill as they used to do, when you were in command.

However, that will be all right now that you have come back again.

I have always found that when the battalion was not working well, the men have pulled themselves together at once when I said: "'This won't do, lads.

The colonel will be grievously disappointed, when he comes back again, if he finds that you have lost your smartness.' "It was as much as we could do to hold them in hand, when they saw you surrounded by the French.

They would have rushed back again, to a man, if we would have let them.