I have heard him say that a good stroke should come from the back and loins rather than from the mere muscles of the arm.' 'It is not a lecture we want, but a beispiel or example,' sneered the German.

'It is with your stroke that we have to do, and not with the teaching of your father.' 'My stroke,' said I, 'is in accordance with his teaching;' and, whistling round the sword, I brought it down with all my might and strength upon the German's helmet.

The good old Commonwealth blade shore through the plate of steel, cut the stool asunder, and buried its point two inches deep in the oaken floor.

'It is but a trick,' I explained.

'I have practised it in the winter evenings at home.' 'It is not a trick that I should care to have played upon me,' said Lord Grey, amid a general murmur of applause and surprise.