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that they've been digging a tunnel under the English Channel.
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Napoleon wanted to dig a tunnel under the Channel.
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There is a tunnel under the English Channel,
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the Chunnel.
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The trains rocket along, at least until they get to Britain
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and then they sort of plod along at about two kilometers an hour,
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but they've improved that side of it.
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Anyway, there's sort of a French bias, but too bad.
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They suddenly find,
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as they're strolling along in the pouring rain,
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the horizontal rain,
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that the sneaky French, there were soldiers all over.