Attention! So!" "Very well.

Haynes, you are trying to stand too upright.

You must not bend backward.

All, incline your bodies a little forward.

Frank Ingalls is standing correctly." "I don't think that's very soldierly," said John Haynes, who felt mortified at being corrected, having flattered himself that he was right and the rest were wrong.
"A soldier shouldn't be round-shouldered, or have a slouching gait," said the instructor quietly; "but you will find when you come to march that the opposite extreme is attended with great inconvenience and discomfort.