"You can learn how to obey the rainmaker when you fall under his orders," replied his chum indulgently.
"How does an impatient fellow learn that, I wonder?" sighed Hal.
"Why, what are you kicking about?" demanded Noll in pretended astonishment.
"You're surely not being overworked, and you're getting in trim for the next work we have cut out for us."
"What's that?"
"Haven't you heard?"
"Not a word."
"Why, the whole battalion, except for a small guard squad from each company, is to be ordered to the September encampment of the Colorado National Guard. The regulars are to be represented there by field artillery, cavalry, infantry, signal corps men and engineer troops. Hal, it's going to be great! There'll be more than eight hundred regulars and two brigades of militia in camp together."
"It won't do me any good," retorted Private Overton cynically.
"Why not?"