There were the guns, but no horses and no harness.

The horses had to be got somehow, and the harness manufactured out of ropes; and you can imagine the confusion of nine battalions of infantry, all recruits, with no one to teach them except a score or two of old army and militia officers.

Old Tom has done wonders, I can tell you.

You see, he is so fearfully earnest himself everyone else has got to be earnest.

There has been no playing about anything, but just fifteen hours' hard work a day.