Let 'em.

It won't hurt, that I know of." But they turned homeward nevertheless; and coming through the rock walls again, Jim said, "Sam, what was that battle the Doctor and you were reading about one day, and you told me all about it afterwards, you know ?" "Malplacquet ?" "No; something like that, though.

Where they got bailed up among the rocks, you know, and fought till they were all killed." "Thermopylae ?" "Ah! This must be just such another place, I should think." "Thermopylae was by the sea-shore," said Alice.
"Now, I should imagine," said Sam, pointing to the natural glacis formed by the decay of the great wall which they had seen fronting them as they came up, "that a few determined men with rifles, posted among those fern-trees, could make a stand against almost any force." "But, Sam," said Jim, "they might be cut up by cavalry.

Horses could travel right up the face of the slope there.

Now, suppose a gang of bushrangers in that fern-scrub; do you think an equal number of police could not turn them out of it?
Why, I have seen the place where Moppy's gang turned and fought Desborough on the Macquarrie.