As he rode away a colour-sergeant seemed to trip, and fell forward into a mimosa bush.

Then a drill corporal took it upon him to bawl Number One as Captain Trebizondi should have done, some one shouted Number Two from "B" Company, the colour-sergeant of "C" bawled Number Three and then, with ready wit, the Captains of "D," "E," and "F" caught up the idea, and the thing was done.

" She stood silent, pensive a moment; then stretched out her arms, a flag in either hand; and the Colonel rode straight up to where she stood, took the silken colours and handed them to the two colour-sergeants.

She was engaged to be married to a quiet, respectable young fellow with a shop of his own, and three days before the wedding she ran off with a regiment of marines and married the colour-sergeant.

One day it would be a trusted colour-sergeant, on another a couple of particularly promising young corporals.

COLOUR-SERGEANT, a sergeant whose duty is to guard the colours and those who carry them.