century but as in europe now as a red indian s war shook where he lay slept like a top it all swept by and troop and died away the stout soldier drew a long breath whistled m a whisper closed his eyes and slept like top in the morning he sat up and put out hi and to wake it lighted on the young man s forehead and found it quite wet then in his quality of nurse to wake him � it is to check sleep or sweat in a sick man said he i know that far though i ne er nor gallows bird after waiting a good hour he felt desperately hungry so he turned and in self defence went to sleep again poor fellow in his hard life he had been often driven to this at high noon he waa the and the hearth t hy and found him sitting ap with the straw smoking round him like a animal heat moisture called him a lazy he quietly grinned they out and the first thing did was to give his etc and mount a high on the road coast clear to the next village � aid he and on they went on drawing near the village halted and suddenly inquired of how he felt what i can you not see i feel as if rome was no further than yon hamlet but thy body lad thy skin neither hot nor cold and yesterday twas hot one while and cold another but what i cannot get rid of is this tiresome leg le grand many of my comrades have found no such difficulty ah there it goes again unhappy youth said solemnly the sum of thy troubles is this thy fever is gone and thy wound is � healing so it is added he i shall tell thee a little piece of news i had otherwise withheld what is t asked sparkling with curiosity the hue and cry is out after us and on fleet horses � � � chapter was staggered by this sudden communication and his colour came and went then he clenched his teeth with ire for men of any spirit at all are like the wild he will run from a superior force owing perhaps to his not being an ass but if you stick to his heels too long and too close and in short bore him he will whirl and come tearing at a multitude of hunters and perhaps bore you then set his teeth and looked battle but the next moment his countenance fell and he said and my axe is in they consulted together prudence bade them avoid that village hunger said buy food hunger spoke prudence most they settled to strike across the fields as they went the very eyes of the pair betrayed the difference in their minds so quick and outward were those of so and inward s halt at this said the latter now tell me by what clue are these following us they us not why by description sure they have got our habit and arms and faces to the letter and writ out by the town clerk i warrant ye i guessed as much well then i ll confound their description and them too give me thy keep thou my purse tis large and noticeable now take thou my long hair and twist it under my bonnet said i twist it off now move not for thy life he ran off and passed two mortal hours of utter wretchedness he wanted to be doing and in stead of that he was passive he was o it of his part became in some respects his own opposite so narrow are our strongest qualities he had aa many and feeble fears for absent and left to his own resources as any old for her boy pet when out of sight only it broke out in violence instead of wailing oh if they touch but a hair of his head i ll bum village to the ground and shoot them down like by the light of their own ruin may satan twist my neck and my soul but i ll cut every male throat young or old that has the but to look on and see my dear comrade and so after the first hour he went on mixing rage with tenderness and good with ill and above all language to hear which one might really wonder heaven did not strike him dead nor while i sacrifice perfect truth of to decency by those with which his talk was or rather do i aim to conceal from my readers the broad fact that this soldier was on the surface what we humble call a bit of rd at last just as he had determined spite of orders to go into the village and rescue his comrade or share his fate upon him from behind the hedge having made a complete circuit embrace me i cried ah dr e v angrily tenderly ton have made me pass an ill quarter of an hour te as i live a as big as one s leg a loaf and a hotel t ay lad but what is in my divine nay i know not a dead cat i monster i no fire then pull it forth ere it thee tis a marvellous in a man s shirt tail is your fire nay this is tame fire and here is his cage and produced a and item matches item two short but thick candles with rush the only ones then known and eyed them all like a parent over their meal he told his story on leaving you first i cut a staff for i said in their description will be no staff and every little confusion then what did i oh then i thought i still leave that to the last remarked with his mouth brim full it 