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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 2 2 Browse Search
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, and undertake to sleep; but you have already slept too much, and you get up and smoke again, look over an old paper, yawn, throw the paper down, and conclude it is confoundedly dull. Jack brings in dinner. You see somebody passing; it is Captain Clayson, the Judge-Advocate, and you cry out: Hold on, Captain; come in and have a bite of dinner. He concludes to do so. Being a judge-advocate he talks law, and impresses you with the idea that every other judge-advocate has in some respects been faulty; but he has taken pains to master his duties perfectly, and makes no mistakes. Pretty soon Major Shane drops in, and you ask him to dine; but he has just been to dinner, and thanks you. Observing Captain Clayson, he asks how the business of the courtmartial progresses, and says: By the way, Captain, the sentence in that quarter-master's case was disapproved because the record was defective. The Captain blushes. He made up the record, and it strikes him the Major's remark is very unt