“That would be first-rate,” said Mark, “and have a great battle.”
“An awful battle,” said Bevis, “the biggest and most awful ever known.”
“Like Waterloo?” said Mark.
“Pooh!”
“Agincourt?”
“Pooh!”
“Mal—Mal,” said Mark, trying to think of Malplaquet.
“Oh! more than anything,” said Bevis; “somebody will have to write a history about it.”
“Shall we wear armour?”
“That would be bow and arrow time. Bows and arrows don’t make any banging.”