Had I run on for a few more minutes in the dark, I should have butted my shako against the wall.

The sun was almost above us when we stopped at a little place called Hal, where there is an old pump from which I drew and drank a shako full of waterand never did a mug of Scotch ale taste as sweet.

He touched his shako, wheeled his horse in the direction from which he had come, and a minute later Marie heard the hoofs echoing through the empty village.