He used the forces at his command so ably that in a very short time the board in the field which says 'No thoroughfare.
Trespassers will be prosecuted' was set up in the middle of the road to Maidstone.

We put stones, from a heap by the road, behind it to make it stand up.
Then Dicky and Denny came back, and Dicky shinned up the sign-post and sawed off the two arms, and we nailed them up wrong, so that it said 'To Maidstone' on the Dover Road, and 'To Dover' on the road to Maidstone.
We decided to leave the Trespassers board on the real Maidstone road, as an extra guard.
Then we settled to start at once to warn Maidstone.
Some of us did not want the girls to go, but it would have been unkind to say so.

However, there was at least one breast that felt a pang of joy when Dora and Daisy gave out that they would rather stay where they were and tell anybody who came by which was the real road.
'Because it would be so dreadful if someone was going to buy pigs or fetch a doctor or anything in a hurry and then found they had got to Dover instead of where they wanted to go to,' Dora said.

But when it came to dinner-time they went home, so that they were entirely out of it.

This often happens to them by some strange fatalism.
We left Martha to take care of the two girls, and Lady and Pincher went with us.