Take those spare rifles, and fire as quickly as you can while the light of the rocket lasts.

Now, Mr.Wilson, we will get you to send them up.

The rest of you had better get in the corner and stoop down behind the sandbags; you can lay your rifles on them, so as to be able to fire as soon as you have lit the second rocket." The Doctor soon came up with the rockets; he had made three dozen the week before, and a number of blue lights, for the special purpose of detecting any movement that the enemy might make at night.
"I will fire them myself," he said, as Wilson offered to take them.

"I have had charge of the fireworks in a score of fetes and that sort of thing, and am a pretty good hand at it.

There, we will lean them against the sandbags.