Of course there is a lot of drill, and it is as much as I can do not to laugh sometimes, the sergeant, who is a fierce little man, gets into such wild rages over our blunders.
"I say our blunders, for of course Stapleton and I are drilled with the recruits.

However, I think that in another week I shall be over that, and shall then begin to learn my work as an officer.

They are a jolly set of fellows here, always up to some fun or other.

I always thought when fellows got to be men they were rather serious, but it seems to me that there is ever so much more fun here among them than there was at school.

Of course newcomers get worried a little just as they do at school.