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The High School Boys' Training Hike by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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"Their uniforms were nice and neat, weren't they?" Tom asked.

"Of course," Prescott answered.

"Then that was because your Army or Navy officers hadn't been
doing any hard work that would ruffle the neatness of their uniforms,"
finished Tom triumphantly, "and there you are! I can dress up
on Sundays or holidays, but on the work days, when I'm a civil
engineer, I want to wear clothes that show that I'm not afraid
to tackle the rough and hard things of life."

"Then you might join Dan in being a day laborer," teased Dick
laughingly.

"Oh, no! I want to use my brain along with my muscles, and that's
why I'm going to be a civil engineer."

"Army a Navy officers may have had an easy time of it once," Dave
went on warmly, but times have changed. Our fighting men, to-day,
are obliged to hustle all the time to keep up with the march and
progress of science. I asked an Army officer, once, what he did
in his spare time. He looked at me rather queerly, then replied,
'I sleep.'"

"He was lazy as well as offensively neat, then," laughed Tom.
"As for me, I enjoy my old clothes, and that is one of the reasons
why I'm having so much fun out of this trip. I don't have to
dress up!"

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