CHAPTER XVIII.
A FORTUNE IN GOOD MANNERS Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes; he has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess .-- EMERSON.
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world .-- GERMAN PROVERB.
What thou wilt, Thou must rather enforce it with thy smile, Than hew to it with thy sword.
SHAKESPEARE.
Politeness has been compared to an air cushion, which, although there is apparently nothing in it, eases our jolts wonderfully .-- GEORGE L.
CAREY.
Birth's gude, but breedin's better .-- SCOTCH PROVERB.
Conduct is three fourths of life .-- MATTHEW ARNOLD.
"Why the doose de 'e 'old 'is 'ead down like that ?" asked a cockney sergeant-major angrily, when a worthy fellow soldier wished to be reinstated in a position from which he had been dismissed.

"Has 'e 's been han hofficer 'e bought to know 'ow to be'ave 'isself better.

What use 'ud 'e be has a non-commissioned hofficer hif 'e didn't dare look 'is men in the face?
Hif a man wants to be a soldier, hi say, let 'im cock 'is chin hup, switch 'is stick abart a bit, an give a crack hover the 'ead to hanybody who comes foolin' round 'im, helse 'e might just has well be a Methodist parson." The English is somewhat rude, but it expresses pretty forcibly the fact that a good bearing is indispensable to success as a soldier.

Mien and manner have much to do with our influence and reputation in any walk of life.
"Don't you wish you had my power ?" asked the East Wind of the Zephyr.
"Why, when I start they hail me by storm signals all along the coast.
I can twist off a ship's mast as easily as you can waft thistledown.
With one sweep of my wing I strew the coast from Labrador to Cape Horn with shattered ship timber.

I can lift and have often lifted the Atlantic.