"Now don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice" said the troop-horse. "Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night I think if they see things they don't understand. We've broken out of our pickets again and again four hundred and fifty of us just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip snakes at home in Australia till we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes." "That's all very well in camp" said Billy. "I'm not above stampeding myself for the fun of the thing when I haven't been out for a day or two. But what do you do on active service?"