What are you going to call him ?" "I shall call him Robin.

That was the name of my favourite horse, at home.
"I see you have got some stout animals in the other stalls, though of course they are of a very different quality to your own." "Yes; many of them are new purchases.

We have taken on thirty men-at-arms; stout fellows, old soldiers all, whom my mother will send into the field if we come to blows.

Besides these there will be some twenty of our tenants.

We could have raised the whole number among them, had we chosen; for if we called up the full strength of the estate, and put all bound to service in the field in war time, we could turn out fully three hundred; but of these well-nigh a third are Catholics, and could not in any way be relied on, nor would it be just to call upon them to fight against their co-religionists.