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tjaden has a special grudge against himmelstoss. tjaden wet his bed at night in his sleep. himmelstoss maintained that it was sheer laziness and invented a method worthy of himself for curing tjaden.

that’s the uniform.

...then how does it come that he's such a bully as a drill sergeant?

surely himmelstoss wasa very different fellow as a postman...

sometimes if you give a man a little authority he will snap at it, just like a dog goes after a piece of meat.

the army is based on that;

one man mustalways have power over the other. and the more insignificant a man has been in civil life the worse it takes him.

they say, of course, there must be disci-pline.

they always do. and it may be so; still it oughtn’t to become an abuse.

hey, what’stjaden so excited about?

himmelstoss is on his way...

...he’s coming to the front!