poets went without their dinners either that they might buy paper and goose or because they could not get any thing to eat � antiquity out of its grave to see itself � while even posterity stood mute gazing in gaping ecstasy of on the field g conduct of the heathen the immortal who had seen service at the affair of � now mounted their feather bed clouds and sailed over the plain or mingled among the in different all to have a finger in the pie sent off his to a noted to have it up for the occasion swore by her she would the and in semblance of a the of fort accompanied by as a s widow of cracked reputation � the noted bully stuck two horse pistols into his belt shouldered a rusty and gallantly at their elbow as a drunken � while in their rear as a legged playing most out of tune on the other side the ox eyed who had gained a pair of black eyes over night in one of her curtain lectures with old displayed her haughty beauties on a baggage � as a gin tucked up her skirts her fists and swore most in exceeding bad dutch having but lately studied the language by way of keeping up the spirits of the soldiers while halted as a club footed blacksmith lately promoted to be a captain of all was silent horror or bustling preparation war reared his horrid front loud his iron and shook his crest of of the hosts and now the mighty out their hosts here stood stout firm as a thousand rocks � with and to the chin in mud his lined the breast work in grim array each having his fiercely and his hair back and so stiffly that he grinned above the like a death s head there came on the peter � his brows knit his teeth set his fists almost breathing forth volumes of smoke so fierce was the fire that raged within his bosom his faithful squire van at his heels with his trumpet with red and yellow the of his fair at the then came on the sturdy chivalry of the there were the van and the van and the ten � the van the van the van the van the van and the van � the van the van the van the van the van and the van there were the van homes the van hooks the van the van the van and the van the the hoofs the the the pools and the � there came the the the the the peter s address before the battle the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the ten and the tough with a host more of whose names are too to be written or if they could be written it would be impossible for man to utter � all fortified with a mighty dinner and to use the words of a great dutch poet � of wrath and for an instant the mighty peter paused in the midst of his career and mounting on a stump addressed his troops in eloquent low dutch them to fight like and assuring them that if they conquered they should get � if they should be allowed the satisfaction while dying of reflecting that it was in the service of their country � and after they were dead of seeing their names inscribed in the temple of renown and handed down in company with all the other great men of the year for the admiration of posterity � finally he swore to them on the word of a governor and they knew him too well to doubt it for a moment that if he caught any mother s son of them looking pale or playing he would his hide till terrific he made him run out of it like a snake in spring time � then out his he it three times over his head ordered van to sound a tremendous charge and shouting the word st and the v dashed forwards his warlike followers who had employed the interval in lighting their pipes instantly stuck them in their mouths gave a furious puff and charged gallantly under cover of the smoke the garrison ordered by the cunning not to fire until they could distinguish the of their eyes stood in horrid silence on the covert way until the eager had ascended the then did they pour into them such a tremendous that the very hills around and were terrified even unto an of water that certain springs burst forth from their sides which continue to run unto the present day not a but would have bitten the dust beneath that dreadful fire had not the protecting kindly taken care that the should one and all observe their usual custom of shutting their eyes and turning away their heads at the moment of discharge the followed up their fire by leaping the and falling tooth and nail upon the foe with furious and now might be seen of of which neither history nor song have ever recorded a parallel here was of beheld the sturdy his quarter staff like the terrible giant his oak tree for he scorned to carry any other weapon and a tune upon the heads of whole of there were the van posted at a distance like the of and it most with the long bow for which they were so justly renowned at another place were collected on a rising the men of sing sing who assisted in the fight by forth the great song of st but as to the of they were absent from the battle having been sent out on a party to lay waste the neighbouring water patches in a different part of the field might be seen the van of s nose but they 