A lone Yankee soldier was aboard--an indignant lieutenant of infantry named Shotwell--sent home from a fighting regiment to instruct the ambitious rookie at Camp Upton.
As instructor to rookie aspirants he would have been somebody: he had already been somebody as a lieutenant of infantry in the thunderous scheme of things in the Argonne.
This book does for the Navy fledgling what DERE MABLE does for the rookie of the Army.
Rookie Marine Applicant—“No, sir; but I have some cigarets in my coat over there.
Some of the happier memories of my rookie days die with him.
When I was a homelessrookie he took me in and I fed him--cigarette butts--and I'll honestly say that he showed more genuine appreciation than many a flapper I have plied with costly viands.
He remarked, with ill-disguised bitterness, that I could think of more ineffectual things to do than any rookie it had been his misfortune to meet.
And they are those musical miscreants, Those malefactors of noise, Those rookie Second Cavalrymen, The amateur bugle boys.
On the parade, Soft and low, Rookie hiccoughed, "Forward, Ho!
To-morrow morning is the time at St. Timothy's Hospital and to-morrow afternoon is rookie drill.
Then you can come in immediately and start rookie drill and the first-aid work with the service while you are getting your technical training.
The rookie was then put on a table in the company street, and the doctor took a turn with one of the fine wires around a tooth behind the break, twisting the ends together.
Yet I am convinced that what will best control the Plattsburg rookie is the Plattsburg non-com.
Then officers began to come in, and to chat with the old colonel in the next room, and glance through the door at us, as if saying, "When is that dam rookie going to go?
No; I appear to be talking to a rookie (recruit) who happens to be wearing a sergeant chevrons," retorted the top sternly.
As Captain Dick stood there, receiving and returning the salute of eachrookie as he passed, the young company commander noted each man's performance with keen eyes.
He may have had a stainless steel hide and a bunch of wires for a brain--but he spelled rookie cop to me just the same.
All I had to do was squint my eyes a bit and there stood Ned the Rookie Cop.
McRae had taken him when he was a raw rookie and given him his chance with the Giants to show what he could do.
A rookie was put on second to run for Joe, and the latter was assisted to the clubhouse, where Dougherty and his assistants set to work on the leg and ankle at once.
Within an hour he discovered that Rookie McTabb had not been to Le Pas for nearly two years.
Maballa was her name, Rookie had told him, and she understood and could talk English better than her son.
The last words were quite plain, and he gave a low cry when he found that it was from Rookie McTabb.
He was glad that he had kept this to himself, for there would not be much of a chance of Rookie having found the child's relative.
For two years he had messed with Rookie McTabb down at Norway and Nelson House.
After a little Billy held her out to him again, and a part of what Rookie had seen in his face was gone.
Rookie was straightening out the dogs when, like a thief, he clipped off one of the curls with his knife.
On the third and the fifth and the seventh days he went over to McTabb's cabin, and Rookie came out and talked with him at a distance through a birchbark megaphone.
Rookie was sensitive to see, and she found her hand steady to hold the torch.
If Rookie kidnaped her (and the child, it would have to be, the doubtful child) would she pay in love for love, or only an uncomprehending worship?
Or he's going to pounce some time when Rookie isn't prepared.
What a team he and she and Rookie would be if they could only eliminate this idea of marriage.
You wouldn't believe me if I told you what kind of a Rookie you are.
And now here she was dreaming off on Rookie when she must, at this very instant, to seize any advantage at all, be facing Dick.
Yes, Rookie darling," she said, in a tone of drowsy happiness.
It might well be flushed, for he had called her darling, and Nan, feeling lorn and bewildered in losing the Rookie she used to think she knew, felt for the instant that she had got home again.
When he was twenty years older, was he going to look as Rookie did now?
I suppose," said she, "you came to see whether I mightn't be having the time of my life sitting here with Rookieby the fire.
In a year or two, youth would meet her on the road of youth, and they would kiss and old Rookie would become the dim duty of remembered custom.
She simply meant to enjoy to the full the ecstasy of living, just as if it were going on for a lifetime, under the same roof with Rookie and having him all to herself.
Now she sat perversely staring into the fire, realizing that everything about her angered him: the childish vanity of her dress, assumed, he would be sure, to charm the Rookie of old days into renewed remembrance.
The game was that she and Rookie were living here in this house in some such potency of possessive bliss that nothing could separate them.
The first of the trench-warfare weapons with which the rookie soldier became acquainted was the hand grenade, since this, at least in its practice or dummy form, was supplied to the training camps in this country.
The men were deliberately bleaching out their leggins, usually by using salt solutions on them, since anything but a faded leggin indicated that the soldier who wore it was a rookie and a greenhorn.
Realizing that the rookie was in earnest the soldiers stepped away from between the pair.
By the time they reached the ledge they heard some lively scrambling among the rocks beyond, but neither rookie could see anyone.
Private Bill Hooper let out a roar, then sprang for the boy, intending to pulverize the young rookie with his fists.
Neither did he hesitate to single out any rookie who did a thing improperly.
The setting-up drills are very similar to ordinary work without apparatus in a gymnasium--but with this difference: the rookieis made to go through with them more and more snappily each time that he is set to the work.
It isn't often that a rookie gets commended in orders.
At last a bugle sounded the recall for the rookie squads.
For the nimble rookie never did seem to be just where Bill Hooper looked for him when landing blows.
I've been around to the rookie shed and got passed as a soldier in the Regular Army.
The fellows tell me that a rookie generally has his first issue of uniform in about three days," said Noll.
This was just what the rookie wanted to do, for he judged that Hooper could be prodded into a blind rage.
But the rookie side-stepped swiftly out of the way.
The length of time that he remains a recruit depends very much upon therookie himself.
It's bad enough to be a rookiewithout having it rubbed in.
Is it allowable, Sergeant, for a rookie to ask what this is all about?
He was patient, even if firm, and he called no rookie uncomplimentary names.
Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie Dere Mable: I guess you thought I was dead.
He must sham weariness and demoralization, lead the tippy rookie on to over-confidence and then land him clean over the ropes.
Say, he's a rookie dat t'inks 'e kin clean up our gang.
Bixton, however, the talkative rookie whom the four "Brothers" so disliked had been aware of the Pole's sudden change of carriage.
He also disapproved of the freckle-faced rookie as having too much to say.
His round blue eyes registered a blank amazement that quickly changed to active resentment as he fixed them upon the rookie who had so roughly called out to him.
A newly made drill sergeant is more likely to get peppery and bawl a rookie out before the whole squad.
If he's an old-timer who's seen service he's more apt to be patient with a rookie than if he's just won his chevrons.
