How many houses are there in the village ?" "There are ten or twelve, sir." "That is all right, then.

We must quarter two men on each.

I will pay every one for the trouble it will give, and for something to eat, which we want badly enough, for we have come at least twenty-five or twenty-six miles, and probably ten more than that, and have had nothing but a bit of bread since we started." "It's heartily welcome you will be, sir," the woman said, "and we will all do the best we can for you." The men were now ordered to fall out.

The sergeant proceeded with them through the village, quartering two men on each house, while Ralph went round to see what provisions were obtainable.

Potatoes and black bread were to be had everywhere, and he also was able to buy a good-sized pig, which, in a very few minutes, was killed and cut up.
"We have reason to consider ourselves lucky indeed," Ralph said, as he sat down with the excise officer half an hour later to a meal of boiled potatoes and pork chops roasted over a peat fire.