"Hang it all, where’s your enterprise? Don’t you see, you owl, we’d kill two birds with one stone?  We’d teach old Noakes a lesson and test your idea at the same time. Imagine Noakes is a prowling Hun, coming at dead of night to surprise our unsuspecting Tommies, stealing along, all quiet—and slap he goes into the tar.  Come, man, it’s splendid."