In Barracks and Wigwam — page 87: what you’re looking at

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_ Private Osborne because he recogwized i& him a contra-. Oa ae ¢ yo i Fa eS . Fk ce ok Call to Bomnce for ‘Troop A. 77 Itis more than likely that he formed a prej Game awa diction of his cherished belief—because he saw that the young recruit possessed the very qualities which would in time, and under favorable. oppor tunities, lead to high promotion. Be the reason what it may, the captain did dislike the lad, and Linn was thoroughly aware of this. It added to his discouragement to know that even should he be transferred to another troop—which was far from proba- ble—there was no early prospect of winning promotiot by showing what he could do on active service. Close bordering Fort Sandiman on the north was the reservation of the ‘Brule Sioux, with their crafty chief, Gray Fox. Not many miles to the southwest lay the Ogallalla Sioux reservation, the home of the famous and terrible Flying Thunder. But these Indians—formerly the pest of settler and soldier—had been at peace for some time; and that peace promised to. be undisturbed, in spite of the usual and incessant rumors to the con- trary. So Linn’s prospects were far from bright, and the shat- tering of his hopes gave him many an hour of wretched- ness and heartache. But courage and pluck kept him from utter despair, and in the past weeks he had held fast to his ideals, faithfully and zealously performing the duties of his new life—the monotony of which was occa- sionally broken by a visit to the neighboring town of Chamberlain, or to Red Rock Agency on the Brule reser- ~ vation. He had written no word home to his father, nor did he intend to do so until the future had brightened, and he could feel satisfied that he had not made a mistake in _ choosing a military career. He was thinking of this and >: uals never to return to Carlisle without an officer’s cComicbooks (ee) m