He gave Abraham's saddle to Gooja Singh, set one of the new naiks over the left wing, and Gooja Singh over the right wing of the forty, under himself, and ordered rations for three days to be cooked and served out to the forty, including corn for their horses.

They had to carry it all in the knap-sacks on their own backs, since no one of them yet had saddles.
Gooja Singh eyed me by firelight while this was going on, with his tongue in his cheek, as much as to say I had been superseded and would know it soon.

When I affected not to notice he said aloud in my hearing that men who sat on both sides of a fence were never on the right side when the doings happen.

And when I took no notice of that he asked me in a very loud voice whether my heart quailed at the prospect of being left a mile or two behind.

But I let him have his say.