We are not short of money, thanks to the captures we have made.
"I see that none of your band have firearms." "No, sir.

Jean Martin would have let me have some of the muskets he brought from here, but it seemed to me that they would be an encumbrance.

We may have to trust to our swiftness of foot to escape and, at any rate, we shall want to carry messages to you as quickly as possible.

The weight of a gun and ammunition would make a good deal of difference; and would, moreover, be in our way in getting through the woods and hedges." "But for all that, you ought to have some defence," Cathelineau said; "and if you came upon a patrol of cavalry, though only three or four in number, you would be in a bad case with only those knives to defend yourselves.
"Do you know whether there are any pistols in the storehouse, Monsieur Bonchamp ?" "Yes, there are some that were picked up from the cavalrymen we killed.

They have not been given out yet." "Then I think we had better serve out a pistol, with a score of cartridges, to each of these lads.
"If you let them fire three or four rounds at the trunk of a tree, or some mark of that sort, Monsieur Stansfield, they will get to know something about the use of the weapons." "Thank you, sir.