Soft-footed, ever in the van,
Stalks the bold ghost of Robin Hood.
Mrs. Jones (suspiciously, to Jones, who is kept on strict rations). "Somebody has eaten Fido's dinner."
THE SECRETS OF HEROISM.
"Don't talk about heroism," said Sergeant William Bingley, "until you know what it is—and isn't.
"There were two men in my platoon over there that I'd match against any other two in the British, Allied, or Enemy armies for the biggest funks on earth; two boys from the same town, as unlike as cross-bred puppies, but cowards to the ankles.
"They were the only two that didn't volunteer for a listening picket one night, and I felt so ashamed of them that I decided to mention it.