The streets of the two camps were adjacent, and the Tommies walked out to watch the Yankees pegging down their tents.
"Aw," they said, "wot a shyme you've brought nobody along to tuck you in." They made other similar remarks; commented unfavorably upon the alignment; "You were a bit late in coming," they said.

Of course our boys had answers, and to these the Tommies had further answers, and this encounter of wits very naturally led to a result which could not possibly have been happier.

I don't know what the Tommies expected the Yankees to do.

I suppose they were as ignorant of our nature as we of theirs, and that they entertained preconceived notions.

They suddenly found that we were, once again to quote Mr.Kipling, "bachelors in barricks most remarkable like" themselves.