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Men flung discipline
to the winds and began fighting for a chance of their lives. It was a
terrific and humiliating scene.
Suddenly, over the tumult, was heard a loud, ringing laugh.
"Oh, I say, Duff! Not that way! Not that way!"
Again came the ringing laugh.
Immediately a silence fell upon the struggling crowd, and for a moment
they stood looking inquiringly at each other. That moment of silence was
seized by the sergeant major. Like a trumpet his sonorous voice rang out
steady and clear.
"Fall in, men! Boat quarters! Silence there!"
He followed this with sharp, intelligible commands to his N. C. O.'s.
Like magic, order fell upon the turbulent, struggling crowd.
"Stand steady, you there!" roared the sergeant major, who having got
control of his men, began to indulge himself in a few telling and
descriptive adjectives.
In less than two minutes, the men were standing steady as a rock and the
panic was passed.
"Who was it that laughed up there in that stampede?" inquired the O.


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