He laughed ruefully.
"I've been in about forty battles, and here's that little devil rather worried about my pluck and talkin' to me like a corps commander to a newly joined second-lieutenant.

All the same he's a remarkable child, and we'd better behave as if we were in for a real shindy.

What do you think, Princess ?" "I think we are in for what you call a shindy.

I am in command, remember.

I order you to serve out the guns." This was done, a shot-gun and a hundred cartridges to each, while McGuffog, who was a marksman, was also given a sporting Mannlicher, and two other rifles, a .303 and a small-bore Holland, were kept in reserve in the hall.