Two days after arriving, he had called all the tenants on the estate together, and had endeavoured to rouse them to the necessity of acquiring a certain amount of discipline.

He had brought with him a waggon load of muskets and ammunition, which had been discovered at Chollet after the main bulk of the peasants had departed; and Cathelineau had allowed him to carry them off, in order that the peasantry in the neighbourhood of the chateau should be provided with a proportion of guns, when the day of action arrived.

The peasants gladly received the firearms, but could not be persuaded to endeavour to fight in any sort of order.
"They did not do it at Chollet, or elsewhere," they exclaimed, "and yet they beat the Blues easily.

What good did discipline do to the enemy?
None.

Why, then, should we bother ourselves about it?
When the enemy comes, we will rush upon them when they are tangled in our thickets." Leigh was somewhat more successful.