`` It 's too dark to see much . Are n't these camels too sickening for anything ? I walked out of my lines to get a little peace and quiet here . '' `` My lords , '' said the camel humbly , `` we dreamed bad dreams in the night , and we were very much afraid . I am only a baggage camel of the 39th Native Infantry , and I am not as brave as you are , my lords . '' `` Then why did n't you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infantry , instead of running all round the camp ? '' said the mule . `` They were such very bad dreams , '' said the camel . `` I am sorry . Listen ! What is that ? Shall we run on again ? '' `` Sit down , '' said the mule , `` or you 'll snap your long stick-legs between the guns . '' He cocked one ear and listened . `` Bullocks ! '' he said . `` Gun bullocks . On my word , you and your friends have waked the camp very thoroughly . It takes a good deal of prodding to put up a gun-bullock . '' I heard a chain dragging along the ground , and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants wo n't go any nearer to the firing , came shouldering along together .
And almost stepping XXXXX the chain was another battery mule , calling wildly for `` Billy . ''
Infantry along between for in of on stick-legs that to