There, I forgive you for being long," he added good-humouredly.

"The horses want a drink badly.

Show the men where to lead them at once." "My news is not so good as that, sir.

It's hard to get." "What! At the bottom of a well ?" "Of a well-like place; and I think there's an ample supply." "See to getting ropes, Sergeant," said the Colonel, "and--we have no buckets with us ?" "No, sir; but there's a couple of those zinc-lined nose-bags in the troop." "Capital.

They'll do.