“One!”
Down went the sovereign on the road.
“Now! Right about turn. Quick march!”
“I sha’n’t.”
“If you don’t, I’ll shoot you.”
“You’ll be hanged.”
“I don’t care. I’ll die game.”
Wasn’t it awful? But it was the stuff he had read.
Poor Jones, who certainly is not a brave man, perhaps through having a wife and family, had to give it up as a bad job, turned round, and began to move slowly away.