"It has been on the tip of me tongue to ask you, for me mouth is like an oven; but I was so afraid you would say it was gone that I dare n't open me lips about it." "To tell you the truth, O'Grady, except when some of you fellows come over, there is not any whisky touched in this camp.

I have kept it strictly for your sergeants, who have been helping to teach my men drill, and coaching the non-commissioned officers.

It has been hard work for them, but they have stuck to it well, and the thought of an allowance at the end of the day's work has done wonders with them.
"We made a very fair show when we came in, but now I think the two battalions could work with the best here, without doing themselves discredit.

The non-commissioned officers have always been our weak point, but now my fellows know their work very fairly, and they go at it with a will.

You see, they are all very proud of the corps, and have spared no pains to make themselves worthy of it.
"Of course, what you may call purely parade movements are not done as they are by our infantry; but in all useful work, I would back them against any here.