That's your way: giggle over everything.

But when I play background, I want it to be with something worth while in the foreground.

I don't hanker after making myself a foil to show off such fellers as our officers are, to good advantage." "That don't bother me any more than it does a mountain to serve as a background for a nanny goat and a pair of sore-eyed mules!" "Yes, but the mountain sometimes has an opportunity to drop an avalanche on 'em." At this point of the discussion they arrived at the company grounds, and had scarcely time to snatch up their guns and don their belts before the company moved out to take its place in the regimental line.
The occasion of Lieutenant Alspaugh's elaborate personal ornamentation now manifested itself.

By reason of Captain Bennett's absence, he was in command of the company, and was about to make his first appearance on parade in that capacity.

Two or three young women, of the hollyhock order of beauty, whom he was very anxious to impress, had been brought to camp, to witness his apotheosis into a commanding officer.
The moment, however, that he placed himself at the head of the company and drew sword, the chill breath of distrust sent the mercury of his self-confidence down to zero.