Then you can let us have two?
The Commandant will give an order for the payment." "Hang the Commandant's payments!" cried the director testily.

"When young fellows like you are ready to give their lives in the Queen's service, do you think men like we are can't afford to mount them?
Come along with me, and you shall have the pick of the sturdy cob ponies I have.

They're rough, and almost unbroken--what sort of horsemen are you ?" "Very bad, sir," replied Ingleborough: "no style at all.

We ride astride though." "Well, so I suppose," said the director, laughing, "and with your faces to the nag's head.

If you tell me you look towards the tail I shall not believe you.