I am a lieutenant in the Bengal Horse Artillery." "That is delightful.

I am a soldier's daughter, and Mr.Buckley here also, as you know, I suppose." "A soldier's daughter, is he ?" said impudent Jim.

"A very fine girl too!" Sam, and Jim too, had some disrespectful ideas about soldiers' riding qualities; Sam could not help saying,-- "I hope you will be careful with that mare, Mr.Halbert; I should not like a guest of ours to be damaged.

She's a desperate brute,--I'm afraid of her myself." "I think I know the length of her ladyship's foot," said Halbert, laughing good-naturedly.
As they were speaking, they were passing through a narrow way in a wattle scrub.

Suddenly a blundering kangaroo, with Rover in full chase, dashed right under the mare's nose and set her plunging furiously.