New Trousers

At the beginning of this summer when looking for a uniform to wear this summer at the Cavalry Post, I was unable to find any pants that fit and lacked a stripe of rank (Corporals and Sergeants have stripes of yellow that indicate their rank, I am only a Private). So after asking management if they had any other pants that would fit me, they said that they did not, but that they would order a pair that fit. Recently the new pair came in and so I returned my pair of Corporal pants for a pair of new Private pants. However, I soon realized that the pants were a bit too long, one of the other workers at the Fort, a Laundress, volunteered to hem them up for me so the trousers did not drag on the ground too much. While Miss Nora was sewing up my pants, I had to hide in the tent that we have set up waiting for the trousers to be mended. While I was waiting and Miss Nora was sewing an elderly man came over and announced that he wished to look inside that tent. Nora replied that he had best not go into the tent as a Private was napping inside. The man then chatted for the next forty-five minutes the man talked while Nora finished sewing my pants and managed to give me the pants without the man noticing. I managed to get the trousers on under the army blanket in the tent without any visiter being any the wiser. The man continued talking about how thirty years ago he had slept in the barracks, which had not been rebuilt yet.