With force enough to snap it."

and Sam added for the Wombat's benefit--

"I take no shame to fight the lame
When they deserve to cop it.
So do not try to pipe your eye,
Or with my flip I'll flop it."

The puddin'-thieves disappeared over the hill and, as the evening
happened to come down rather suddenly at that moment, Bill said,
"Business bein' over for the day, now's the time to set about
makin' the camp fire."

This was a welcome suggestion, for, as all travellers know, if you
don't sit by a camp fire in the evening, you have to sit by
nothing in the dark, which is a most unsociable way of spending
your time. They found a comfortable nook under the hedge, where
there were plenty of dry leaves to rest on, and there they built
a fire, and put the billy on, and made tea. The tea and sugar and
three tin cups and half a pound of mixed biscuits were brought out
of the bag by Sam, while Bill cut slices of steak-and-kidney from
the Puddin'. After that they had boiled jam roll and apple
dumpling, as the fancy took them, for if you wanted a change of
food from the Puddin', all you had to do was to whistle twice and
turn the basin round.

After they had eaten as much as they wanted, the things were put
away in the bag, and they settled down comfortably for the
evening. "This is what I call grand," said Bill, cutting up his