Celui-ci, ancien soldat, devinant d’abord le plan de campagne de son interlocuteur, parla des protections qu’avait son maître, ajoutant que, certes, on ne lui chiperait pas ses beaux chevaux.
The latter, an old soldier, guessing his questioner's plan of campaign from the first, spoke of the powerful protection which his master enjoyed, adding that certainly they would not _bone_ his fine horses.