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Almost every cut is executed upon the lunge. As you and your adversary engage, you are practically out of each other's range unless you lunge. Standing in the first position the heels are two feet apart. On the lunge, I have seen Corporal-Major Blackburn, a man, it is true, over six feet in height, measure, from his left heel to a point on the floor, level with his sword point, nearly ten feet.
With zealous subalterns, an experienced corporal-major, well-drilled men, and horses that knew their way home, it required little military skill to move his handful of cavalry back to barracks, so Lord Bearwarden came off duty without creating scandal or ridicule in the regiment; but I doubt if he knew exactly what he was doing, till he arrived in plain clothes within a few paces of his own door.
Egerton Castle's "Schools and Masters of Fence." These pages are merely intended for the tyro they are, at best, a compilation of those notes written during the last ten years in black and white upon my epidermis by the ash-plants of Serjeants Waite and Ottaway, and Corporal-Major Blackburn.
'Alas! I thought, 'these dainty charms Are not for me, 'tis plain; Too long she keeps me under arms, Does Twisting Jane. Our corporal-major says to me, One day before parade, 'She's gammoning you, young chap, says he, 'Is that there artful jade! You'll not be long of finding out, When nothing's left to gain, How quick the word is "Threes about!" With Twisting Jane!
Our corporal-major knows what's what; I peeped above her blind; The tea was made the toast was hot She looked so sweet and kind. My captain in her parlour sat, It gave me quite a pain, With coloured clothes, and shining hat, By Twisting Jane. The major he came cantering past, She bustled out to see, 'O, major! is it you at last?
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