"Good morning, gentlemen," said the sergeant.

"Good morning," we replied: and there was a pause.

The sergeant fidgetted upon his feet. We waited.

"Well, now, gentlemen," said the sergeant, with a pleasant smile,
"what do you say to falling in?"

We agreed to fall in. He showed us how to do it. He cast a critical
eye along the back of our rear line.

"A little further forward, number three, if you don't mind, sir," he
suggested.

Number three, who was an important-looking gentleman, stepped
forward.

The sergeant cast his critical eye along the front of the first line.

"A little further back, if you don't mind, sir," he suggested,
addressing the third gentleman from the end.

"Can't," explained the third gentleman, "much as I can do to keep
where I am."

The sergeant cast his critical eye between the lines.

"Ah," said the sergeant, "a little full-chested, some of us. We will