I don't think I should make much hand with the other two, but perhaps Richards would like to come in and amuse them while we are out; he is just the fellow for young ones." There was another laugh, in which Richards joined.

"I could carry them about on my back, and pretend to be a horse," he said; "but I don't know that I could amuse them in any other way." "You would find that very hot work, Mr.Richards," Mrs.Doolan said; "but I don't think we shall require such a sacrifice of you.

Well, I don't think we shall find it so bad, after all, and I don't suppose it will be for very long; I do not believe in all this talk about chupaties, and disaffection, and that sort of thing; I expect in three months we shall most of us be back again." Ten days later the detachment was settled down in Deennugghur.
The troops were for the most part under canvas, for there was only accommodation for a single company at the station.

The two subalterns occupied a large square tent, while the other three officers took possession of the only three bungalows that were vacant at the station, the Doctor having a tent to himself.

The Major and Isobel had stayed for the first three days with the Hunters, at the end of which time the bungalow had been put in perfect order.