Stand to your arms. Take up your bandoliers. Put on your bandoliers. Take up your match. Take up your rest. Put the string of your rest about your left wrist. Take up your musket. Rest your musket. Poise your musket. Shoulder your musket. Unshoulder your musket and poise. Join your rest to the outside of your musket. Open your pan. Clear your pan. Prime your pan. Shut your pan. Cast off your loose corns. Blow off your loose corns, and bring about your musket to the left side. Trail your rest. Balance your musket in your left hand. Find out your charge. Open your charge. Charge with powder. Draw forth your scouring-stick. Turn and shorten him to an inch. Charge with bullet. Put your scouring-stick into your musket. Ram home your charge. Withdraw your scouring-stick. Turn and shorten him to a handful. Return your scouring-stick. Bring forward your musket and rest. Poise your musket and recover your rest. Join your rest to the outside of your musket. Draw forth your match. Blow your coal. Cock your match. Guard your pan. Blow the ashes from your coal. Open your pan. Present upon your rest. Give fire breast-high. Dismount your musket, joining the rest to the outside of your musket. Uncock and return your match. Clear your pan. Poise your musket. Rest your musket. Take your musket off the rest and set the butt end to the ground. Lay down your musket. Lay down your match. Take your rest into your right hand, clearing the string from your left wrist. Lay down your rest. Take off your bandoliers. Lay down your bandoliers. Here endeth the postures of the musket. The "Postures of the Pike" gave these orders: "Handle, raise, charge, order, advance, shoulder, port, comport, check, trail, and lay down,"--the words "your pikes" being given with every order. Elton's "Instructions to a Company of Horsemen" were as follows: Horse,--_i.e._, mount your horse. Uncap your pistol-case. Draw your pistol. Order your pistol. Span your pistol. Prime your pistol. Shut your pan. Cast your pistol. Gage your flasque. Lode your pistol. Draw your rammer. Lode with bullet and ram home. Return your rammer. Pull down the cock. Recover your pistol. Present and give fire. Return your pistol.