But I'll tell you--I'll give you a hat--you shall have a hat with a cord on it, so you'll be like a soldier.

We'll have a green service cord on it,--say green with a little white in it, Sim Gage?
Don't that make you feel as if you were in a uniform ?" "Now that'd sure be fine, Doc, a hat like that," said Sim.

"I sure would like that.

And I certainly would try to do what was right." Doctor Barnes, still sitting before the little white operating table where his surgical instruments lay, was looking thoughtful.

"In all likelihood I shall have to put a corporal and four men up at your place.