Chapter 144 No.144

"Have, then, thy wish!" He whistled shrill,

And he was answered from the hill;

Wild as the scream of the curlew,note

From crag to crag the signal flew.

200 Instant, through copse and heath, arose

Bonnets and spears and bended bows;

On right, on left, above, below,

Sprung up at once the lurking foe;

From shingles gray their l