'But it is distant, and the shimmer of the sun disturbs the sight.' 'It must be the hamlet of Hindon,' said Reuben.

'Oh, the heat of this steel coat! I wonder if it were very un-soldierly to slip it off and tie it about Dido's neck.

I shall be baked alive else, like a crab in its shell.

How say you, illustrious, is it contravened by any of those thirty-nine articles of war which you bear about in your bosom ?' 'The bearing of the weight of your harness, young man,' Saxon answered gravely, 'is one of the exercises of war, and as such only attainable by such practice as you are now undergoing.

You have many things to learn, and one of them is not to present petronels too readily at folk's heads when you are on horseback.