En guarde

Charlie walked into the kitchen holding two miniature copper saucepans of my mum's. He was holding them very carefully and walking very slowly. He held them out to me looking serious and said in hushed tones 'They iss vewy old and vewy 'pecial'. He then handed one to me and said 'hold like 'iss' so I was holding the bowl bit and the handle was pointing forward, he did the same and suddenly thrust it forward and shouted 'FIGHT!'