| Show e SIGHT AT A MILITARY POST POSTAs As dusk comes on happy children romp on In the lie lawn down the line along alone in drives floats silvery mind deep derp d p toned accompanied by b the tIme clatter Glatter of ur horses hoofs and the ring of or spurred heels on oil stone walk Hut But Smith tries not to lo hear sounds It Is a t world not open to o 0 him The Chinese l wall of ot rank Is I Inn Isan tin nn Impassable barrier between he tween him and the West Vest Point aristocracy He hOe Is treated by 1 his hi officers as R though con eon tad iver contamination nail his lila Amer After AmerIcan iran Ican ran soul foul tills nils with bitterness at the tyranny of oC army discipline lie HI therefore bets the drinks with his hI on the of or the time Sun Hun Sunday day thay dl baseball match between rival troop teams or gossip about a 1 i recent row rown rowin in n Mikes lIkeR one ne of or the tue typical parasitic dens In the nearby ton lown own that hal reaps a n harvest of oC sol lol Olera liers of or their 13 13 pay lie Je listens to the click of ot billiard halls balls In n time the barracks poolroom he tells the corporal he h wishes li I h i to 10 hI hl ho were tramping around down town toYn Attention I Trooper Smith springs to his feet arid ami stands rigid at attention with the other enlisted men on un the guardhouse porch An n officer Is III Sentry No 1 I pre pro hi his antI and as Q the salute IB is 1 bv by b the resumes h hs At Al 9 ai as tattoo lights out Is ii blown Trooper Smith la itt marching from iho the guardhouse with n a relief party an he In Iy lo to und anti fro almis almisa a solitary bent beat II I m lie I whoa call to o and ami a 11 few tew minutes minute later hater taps art are 11 and amid all allmen men not then than to be lie found In hI quarters Quarter or on pails uw or duty du ty art are absent without leave I ell vo and subject to military punish mont Five JIe month mud 13 days more mutters Trooper Smith as he his hi hl carbine to 10 tho ito other shoulder end and looks toward time the aro of ot light where the lie belated moon la liS rising and and a mu brook break the tho Worlds I Work I |
