He answered: "Millions! You 'ave a go. We can't shift 'em. They've took
root, I fink."
He then dug both heels into the mule and, looking round with a bored
expression, exclaimed: "Talk about Napoleon's blinkin' retreat from
Moscow, it ain't ruddy well in it wiv this!"
And he rode on.--_W. Baker (late 3rd Hussars), 35 Tunstall Road,
Brixton, S.W.9._