"I'd carry it."
"But I don't want you to carry it, and I don't want to see for miles. I can see quite as much as I want to-day without the telescope. I don't feel as if I want to see at all. It was quite right, I suppose, for us to be left at home, and proper for us to come and make a show of not minding; but now the excitement's all over, and they're gone, I feel just as if I could howl."
"What! cry?" said Phra wonderingly.
"No—ooo! Howl—shout with rage. I want to quarrel with some one and hit him."
"Well, quarrel with and hit me."
"Shan't. I should hurt you."
"Well, hurt away. I won't hit back."
"Then I shan't be such a coward. Here, I know: I'll go and take that chap's spear away, and break it."
He nodded his head towards one of the guards on duty close to the entrance of the palace.
"What for?"