Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

I will show you the stable" He made his
way to the stable. where there was vacant
stall, and stood by while Ronald removed
the saddle and bride and put on the head
| stall. You can take an armful of hay
from that rack yonder. L can't get him a
ration of grain tonight, it's too late"
| He's Just had good feed" Ronald said,
and Will not want any more but NAV as
| well give him the hay to amuse himself
with. 1t will aecustom him to his new
| quarters. What shall do with my rifle
and pistols?''
Bring them with you, lad; but there was
no occasion for you to have brought them.
Government find arms"
Il happened to have them with me-"
Ronald said, ''and as the rifle carries Gov
eminent ammunition, L thought that they
would let me use it,
eff it's about the right length 1 have no
doubt they will be glad to do So for we have
no very great store of arms, and we are not
quite so particular about having everything
exactly uniform, as they are in a crack
corps at home. As for the pistols. there is
no doubt about them, as being in the
holsters, they don't show. Several of the
men have got them, and most of the officers
Now, Will take you up to your quarters.
The room to which he had led Ronald con-
tanned about dozen men. Some had
already gone to bed. others were rubbing
up bits apd accoutrements, one or two were
reading. Here's new comrade lads"
the Sergeant said; "Blunt's his name. He
is new arrival from home, and you won't
find him greenhorn, for he has served
already"
Ronald had the knack of making himself
at home, and was, before he turned in an
hour later, on terms of good fellowship with
his comrades
In the morning after grooming his horse,
he went in the barrack yard, when the
troop formed up for dismounted drill
"Will you take your place at once in the
ranks?" Sergeant Menzies asked. 'Do you
feel equal to it?''
"Yes; have not grown rusty" Ronald
replied as he fell In.
An hours work sufficed to show Sergeant
Menzies, who was drilling the troop, that
the new recruit needed no instruction on
that score, and that he was as perfect in his
drill as anyone in the troop.
"Are you as well up in your cavalry drill
as in the infantry?" he asked Ronald as the
troop fell out.
'No," Ronald said, "but when one knows
one, he soon gets we'll at home in the other.
At any rate, for simple work the system is
exactly the same, and 1 think with two or
three drills I shall be able to keep my
place"
After breakfast the former formed up
again in their saddles, and the officers took
their places IN the ranks. As the Sergeant
handed to the Adjutant some returns he had
been compiling, the latter asked:
"By the way, Sergeant, did the recruit
Blunt join last night?"
eyes, sir, and he is in his place now in
the rear rank. He was in his uniform when
he came, and found this morning that he
is thoroughly well up in his drill. A smart
soldier all over. 1 should say. don't know
that he will do so well mounted, but don't
think you will see him make many blum
ders. He is evidently sharp fellow"
''Be ought not to have taken his place
until I had passed his horse. Sergeant.
Still can do that after earade drill is over"
The Adjutant then proceeded to put the
troop through a number of easy movements,
such as forming from line to column, and
back into line, and wheeling. There was
no room for anything else in the barrack-
yard, which was small one, as the barracks
would only hold a single troop. Before the
were completed, the Major came
out When the troop was dismissed Ser
geant Menzies brought Ronald up to the
two officers. He had in the morning fur