"Jim!" "What ?" "How do you think the reg'ment 'll do ?" "Oh, they'll fight all right, I guess, after they once get into it," said the other with cold judgment.

He made a fine use of the third person.

"There's been heaps of fun poked at 'em because they're new, of course, and all that; but they'll fight all right, I guess." "Think any of the boys 'll run ?" persisted the youth.
"Oh, there may be a few of 'em run, but there's them kind in every regiment, 'specially when they first goes under fire," said the other in a tolerant way.

"Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.

But you can't bet on nothing.