Show Where did jQu get the clothes 1 asked Colonel Roosevelt adding quick ly I wont ask As long as you have do C a unlfonil youl1 Next day I was ordered to report at diviion headquarters across the hill 1Tbiie I was standing at attention I I heard the following dialogue between General Wheeler and his adjutant I have found your saidle hors sir Thpra was it In the Rough Riders camp VeIl Ill be damned How did it get there They stole it sir Where is it now It Is still over there They claim it is their own and refuse to give it up They say they found it grazing in their trenches four days ago The old general arose in his wrath exclaiming Is there anything those devils wont steal Report the facts to Colonel Roosevelt with my compliments and tell him that I must insist on haying hay-ing my horse returned to me file adjutant departed and General Wheeler turned to me As he reco > nized the cross sabers and number one on my army hat his face clouded and he said SO you are one of the Rough Riders I Rid-ers Well you may be good fighters In fact you have shown yourselves kobe i ko-be good fightersbut for downrIght thievery you are the worst I have ever mown Why your camp is known allover I all-over the army as the den of thieves It is a wonder to me how some of you ever managed to get out here us hanged We have the sherIff of Cripple Creek to leeep us straight sir said 1 saluting salut-ing and was promptly sent away on detail That is a well told story whatever else it may be and the telling is two thirds i1 a story Rooseelt has never been compared to Napoleon nor has his name or deeds ever called up any act of Napoleon but this story does When Colonel Roosevelt told thIs recruit that he would have to rustle for a uniform and equipment what was it but a repetition rep-etition of what Napoleon said when he returned from Elba Soldiers you lack everything that is necessary the enemy Dosseses it Uniformed and equipped in the manner man-ner followed hy this recruit Rooseyelts regiment must have resembled Jack Falstaffs famous army more than anything any-thing seen since Prince Hals time Did It never dawn on the raw recruIt that his colonel was having fine fun wIth him |