Morning, noon
Sticky Smith and Kid Glenn remained a week at Sainte Lesse , then left with the negroes for Calais to help bring up another cargo of mules , the arrival of which was daily expected . A peloton of the Train-des-Equipages and three Remount troopers arrived at Sainte Lesse to take over the corral . John Burley remained to explain and interpret the American mule to these perplexed troopers . Morning , noon , and night he went clanking down to the corral , his cartridge belt and holster swinging at his hip . But sometimes he had a little leisure . Sainte Lesse knew him as a mighty eater and as a lusty drinker of good red wine ; as a mighty and garrulous talker , too , he became known , ready to accost anybody in the quiet and subdued old town and explode into French at the slightest encouragement . But Burley had only women and children and old men on whom to practice his earnest and voluble French , for everybody else was at the front .