"Nothing but a little scratch and a lump on my head, sir. I had forgotten it until you asked."
"Go over to hospital tent, Corporal Overton, and have your head dressed. Corporal Terry, you may go with your friend if you wish."
As the two young corporals saluted and turned away, Captain Cortland stood gazing after them for a few moments, while Private Claxton walked the horse up and down.
"Ellis, you don't often find such a snappy, all-around good pair of young soldiers, do you?" asked B Company's commander.
"Oh, I don't know," replied Captain Ellis. "I have a few like them in my troop, I guess."
"My dear fellow, I'm from Missouri," laughed Captain Cortland.
We would gladly carry the present narrative further, but here the present tale is obliged to end, for there were no other developments of an interesting nature while the encampment with the Colorado National Guard continued. This period was filled with nothing beyond the ordinary routine of camp instruction life, and when it was all over Major Silsbee's battalion of the Thirty-fourth gladly enough returned to Fort Clowdry.
Our gallant soldier boys will be a little older when next we meet them, as we shall do in the next volume in this series, which will be published under the title, "Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants; Or, Handling Their First Real Commands." In this coming volume we shall see to just what extent they made good as non-coms., and whether, in the broader sense, they proved themselves the all-around soldiers that their conduct up to date has seemed to assure. In the next volume will be described much of both the work and the play that fall to the regular Army soldier's lot, and many rousing adventures and ludicrous happenings will therein be told.
The End