When he finished the examination, he said: "You are doubtless badly bruised, but I don't think anything is broken.

Our Cossack horses are little more than ponies.

Had they been heavy horse, they would have trod your life out." A few moments later there was a sound of trampling horses.

They halted close by.

The officers drew back, and a moment later Marshal Scheremetof, the commander of the Russian army, came up to Charlie's side.
"Which of you speaks Swedish ?" he asked the officers, and one of them stepped forward.
"Ask him what force was this that attacked us, and with what object." As Charlie saw no reason for concealment, he replied that it was a body of four hundred Swedish infantry, and a troop of horse, with four guns, and that their object was to enter the town.
"They must have been mad to attempt to cut their way through our whole army," the general said, when the answer was translated to him; "but, by Saint Paul, they nearly succeeded.