They all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of their boots.
Source: Nonsense, quoted by Maria Edgeworth in Harry and Lucy Concluded.
-- Samuel Foote, (Jan 27 1720-1777), English dramatist, comedian, author; The English Aristophanes was a one-legged comedian who starred in Lame Lover, 1770 and mimicked prominent persons; wrote The Minor, 1760.