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men pitch their tents, see them and their accoutre- 

 ments into them, and arrange many small details, 

 before we have any right to think about our own 

 wants. ^ 



Then, after we have been to our own tents, have 

 we not to turn out again, however stiff we may be, 

 to see that the men have got their dinners all right, 

 just as we had to turn out of the arm-chair in front 

 of the fire, to see that our horse was comfortably 

 done up for the night ? 



Can we not, indeed, learn from the Image that 

 noblesse oblige feeling which should influence the 

 Officer at all times, but more especially when he 

 and his men are hard put to it in the Real ? 



