To take a kindly interest in
The trousers issued to the troops.

_Enter_ Staff Officer.

_Staff Officer_. Ho, slaves! your Colonel seeking have I come.

_L. of C._ This is his house, but he is far from home.

_Staff O._ And whither gone? Reply without delay.

_L. of C._ Ask of the Captain. See, he comes this way.

_Enter_ Captain _from dug-out_.

_Captain_. Immaculate stranger, hail! What lucky chance
Has brought you to this dirty bit of France?

_Staff O_. Not chance. A conscientious Brigadier
Has sent me hither.

_Captain_. And what seek you here?

_Staff_. I seek your Colonel.

_Captain_. He is up the line.
'Tis said the foe will soon explode a mine,
And we must be prepared should he attack.

_Staff O_. I think I will await his coming back.