I don't in the least mind your knowing that I wouldn't go a step to fight for Boer or Briton either if it wasn't for a little affair connected with some horses and a cheque.

You see, the War Office people sent down a perfect idiot to buy remounts for the cavalry in Galway and Mayo.

He was the sort of idiot that would tempt an Archbishop to swindle him.

I rather overdid it, I'm afraid, and now the matter is likely to come out.' For all his boasted powers of observation, Captain Quinn failed to notice the disgust and alarm on Hyacinth's face.
'I stuck the fool,' he went on, 'with every old screw in the country.

I got broken-winded mares from the ploughs.