The men were lying about, with some of their belts undone, smoking pipes and cigarettes.
'It's not British soldiers,' Alice said.

'Oh dear, oh dear, I'm afraid it's more enemy.

You didn't sow the army-seed anywhere else, did you, H.
O.dear ?' H.O.was positive he hadn't.

'But perhaps lots more came up where we did sow them,' he said; 'they're all over England by now very likely.
_I_ don't know how many men can grow out of one dragon's tooth.' Then Noel said, 'It was my doing anyhow, and I'm not afraid,' and he walked straight up to the nearest soldier, who was cleaning his pipe with a piece of grass, and said-- 'Please, are you the enemy ?' The man said-- 'No, young Commander-in-Chief, we're the English.' Then Oswald took command.

'Where is the General ?' he said.
'We're out of generals just now, Field-Marshal,' the man said, and his voice was a gentleman's voice.