I had no difficulty in taking my right place on parade, for there was a trooper with a red nose on a flea-bitten grey, and I had observed that my post was always immediately in front of him.
Je n'éprouvais aucune difficulté à trouver ma place à la parade, car il y avait un troupier au nez rouge sur fond gris de puce et j'avais remarqué que ma place était juste devant lui.