Trooper Tales — page 91: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

TWO WOMEN AND A SOLDIER. When you see a man of wit, culture and intelligence in an awkward cavalry squad, learning the rudiments of military symmetry, you may rest assured that a story lurks behind his enlistment—that is, if the arts of peace predominate in his land at the time. There are various reasons why men enter the regular service. Chiefly among these is the desire to live by as little work as possible, and no worry. There are other men, of course, whose personality has become odious in certain sections of the country. These are not worried in the service, because a soldier is judged by his animal worth, and not by the enduring quality of his moral instinct. . . . You would not find another like Venning in the cavalry. In a quiet way he showed his educational attainments. To every man in the troop he also revealed a courtesy which was high and inborn. Inasmuch as the new trooper possessed the form of a Spartan warrior, and a face such as the Greeks loved to picture for their gods, his fellow cavalrymen bore with his infirmities of gentle breeding. Earth is considerably remote from some stars. The distance is not greater, however, than the distinction so- CoOmichboo KS) (E@)