Show WAS ivas EQUAL TO THE OCCASION serf sergeants cants Mill mahtar tart instinct enabled him to cope with entirely enfa millar situation t while to looking for platea pl atea along 1 t ai Chil chilleme lese coast admiral dohn moresa I 1 enc encountered some adventures and somo some that wore were ludicrous one of his experiences he describes in two admirals when visiting the mandarin of tien pach he be with his blue buton robes robe a and attendants I 1 with our paymaster gunner and a guard of ten tea marines and a sergeant tea was offered to us and accepted as a matter ot of course then in an access of politeness the attendant proceeded with the tea to the guard stiffly drawn up in the courtyard ourt yard tho the meu men with rifles shouldered d the serge sergeant aut looked round distractedly for guidance he be had bad no dent for a tea party on an duty the men stared with cool contempt at the spoonful of add acid tea rearing lest a refusal might be an affront I 1 hastily said I 1 Sor sergeant geant let the men take it he looked at me for an am instant with a long horrified look of remonstrance then than stepping to the front as if drill ing he gave the word order arms ground arms take the cups drink the ine tea like Word forty feeling feeding like one they grasped the cups and with a gesture emptied them down don their throats next came the stately commands return the cups take up armst armat shoulder arms it was done the sergeant was hi him M self again he felt lie he had been equal to the oc aslon and I 1 stifled my unseasonable laurater in a cough and a handkerchief youths comparion Con patton |