you a word or two on t it is about his they say that he lives upon human flesh and has o baby every morning for breakfast � for all the world like the giant in old ancient times second old man ye can t believe all ye hear private i only believe half and i only own � such in my character � that perhaps he do eat pagan when he s in the desert but not christian ones at home oh no � tis too much woman whether or no i sometimes � god me � laugh wi horror at the o t till i am that weak i can go round house he should have the washing of em a few times i warrant a wouldn t want to eat babies any more a silence during which they gaze around at the dark dome of sky v the second old man there ll be a change in the weather soon by the look o t i can hear the cows in valley as if i were close to em and the lantern at is shining quite plain first old man well come in and taste a drop o got here that will warm the of your heart as ye we eighty here last night for them that shan t be named � landed at the night afore though they had a narrow with the riding officers this run they make towards the hut when a light on the west horizon becomes visible and quickly second old man he s come first old man come he is though you do say it this then is the beginning of what england s for second old man just what you was thanking god for private the act n private my meaning was � � woman oh that i hadn t married a fiery to make me bring children into the world all through his dreadful calling why didn t a man of no content me i feel as if i were smote hip and in first old man his we can t heed your innocent any longer good neighbours being in the king s service and a hot invasion on fall in fall in mate straight to the box quick march i the old men hasten to the hut and are heard striking a flint and steel returning with a lit lantern they a of and with this set the first of fuel in a blaze the private of the and his wife hastily retreat by the light of the flaming under which the purple of the heath show like bronze and the like the eye of a skull spirit sinister this is and blood to the chorus of the years assume that it means to let us carry out this invasion with pleasing slaughter y so as not to disappoint my hope scene v the i of the years music we carry out nay but should we what is to be ii the that all rules what may or may not befall i i ere were and lit the of the race were writ ii and wasting by land and sea like all else i spirit sinister well be it so my argument is that war makes rattling good history but peace is poor reading so i back for the reason that he will give pleasure to posterity spirit of the gross chorus of the years we comprehend him not the act u the day breaks over the on which the is still burning the morning the white surface of a highway which coming from the royal watering place beyond the hills stretches towards the outskirts of the heath and passes away eastward dumb show moving figures and dot the surface of the road all in one direction away from the coast in the the shapes appear as those of mostly on foot but many in and s carts and on horseback when they reach an hill some pause and look back others enter on the next decline without turning their heads from the opposite horizon numerous companies of in the local uniform of red with green are moving in companies as are also irregular bodies of without uniform while on the upper slopes of the downs towards the shore of the line are visible with cavalry and all passing over to the coast at a signal from the chief two of rumour enter on the highway in the garb of country men first phantom to whither so fast good neighbours and before breakfast too empty be bad to on these historic which i believe won for the local old th regiment the of green have been changed for no apparent reason scene v the first laden with a pack and speaking he s landed westward out by s beach and if you have property you ll save it and yourselves as we are doing second all yesterday the firing at was like the seven heard in heaven when the fierce angel spoke so did he draw men s eyes that way the while his thousand boats full flat for the shore dropped down to west and crossed our here seen from above they the as will a flight of towards dim eve descending on a smooth and stream to seek some s second phantom we are sent to you and ease your souls even now a to the port to check the scare the act � first to second these be inland men who i warrant ee don t know a from a lighter let s take no heed of such comrade and hurry on first phantom will you not hear that what was seen behind the midnight mist their oar blades tossing to the moon was but a fleet of fishing by reason of the of their haul first hey and d ye know it � now i look back to the top o the folk do 