"Bah! How they scurry.

He just sends a ball and they think they'll all be killed," a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully.

"As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean," said a young soldier with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, "I felt like dying of fright.

I did, 'pon my word, I got that frightened!" said he, as if bragging of having been frightened.

That one also passed.