Once again the Mouse Army put on a dazzling display of close-order drill, 
drawing itself up across the empty, colorless plain by platoons, companies, 
battalions, regiments, and brigades; but this time the parade took up a much 
larger space, because this time the mice took care to space themselves as far 
apart as the length of a human arm. Some of the platoons had to march what was, 
for them, a distance of many leagues in order to reach the edges of the 
formation. Princess Nell took advantage of the time to wander about and inspect 
the ranks, and to rehearse the spell.