As a corporal of the Tenth Dragoons at the beginning of the war, Palaphy took part in the violent combat with the Germans west of Paris, In the thick of the battle the cavalryman, finding his colonel wounded and helpless, rushed to his aid.

He then joined the Italian Regular Army, and in 1870 was a Corporal in the Pavia Brigade.

It was claimed that the corporal with whom I had previously spoken was the best gunner in the command, and to him had been entrusted the work of sighting the cannon.

His mind, manners and information advancing with himself, he ended his career, not many years since, a prominent politician in one of the new states; a general in the militiano great preferment, by the way, for one who had been a corporal at the Hutand a legislator.

I set to work, and in less than two weeks I had bought half a dozen officers, ranging from corporal to captain, and had obtained consent of the higher authorities to my departure, provided I could get a physician's certificate declaring me unfit for service.

The corporals advance and place themselves, facing each other, a little in advance of the new sentinel, the old corporal on his right, the new corporal on his left, both at right shoulder, and observe that the old sentinel transmits correctly his instructions.

"Do not blame the corporal for overlooking this," he said; "I am so thin from the journey that he took it for one of my ribs.

"Ah, Jimmy," said Theodore with the aggressive geniality which his old associates so well remember, "come right here," and catching me by the arm he pulled the corporal into the immediate presence of the victor of Gettysburg.

Captain Willoughby directed Joyce and his two companions to go to their pallets, notwithstanding, assuming the charge of the look-out himself, and profiting by the occasion to make himself better acquainted with the character of his new corporal than circumstances had hitherto permitted.

The Corporal behind the counter blew away a pile of cigarette ash and regarded me distrustfully.

A compound of grounds and dish-water, described by the optimistic Mess Corporal as coffee, next made its appearance, mitigated by a bottle of Cointreau and a box of Panatellas; and the Mess turned itself to more intellectual refreshment.

I might so easily have been a corporal by now.

Lieutenant Cockerell accordingly detached a sergeant and a corporal from his train, and passed on.

They are telling him he will be a corporal before his aunt, and he gets huffy.