"Father and mother hope to be able to send me further than the High School, and so they've suggested that I wait until I'm fairly well through before I decide on what I want to be.

Then, if it's anything that a college course would help me to, they'll try to provide it." "What would you like most of all in the world to be ?" inquired the editor of "The Blade." "A soldier!" replied young Prescott, with great promptness and emphasis.
"Hm! The soldier's trade is rather dull these days," replied the editor.

"We're becoming a peaceful people, and the arbitrator's word does the work that the sword used to do." "This country has been in several wars," argued Dick, "and will be in others yet to come.

In times of peace a soldier's duty is to fit himself for the war time that is to come.

Oh, I believe there's plenty, always, that an American soldier ought to be doing." "Perhaps.