"I should say you didn't do much!" he sneered pointedly; "you hooked it as hard as you could after the first skirmish. Why, you haven't got a single sore place about you to show for it."
"Yes, I have!" retorted Sammy in high indignation.
"SAMMY CARTER MUTINOUS."
"Well, let's see it then!" commanded his general in a kindlier tone.
"Can't—ladies present!" said Sammy succinctly, into the retreating rear-guard of whose division the triumphant enemy had charged with the pike snatched from his sister's hands.
"All my wounds are in front. I fought and died with my face to the foe!" said Hugh John in his noblest manner.
"And I d'livered Donald!" contributed Toady Lion complacently.