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But the patriarch had Stern by the arm now; and in the midst of a confused and shouting mass of the Folk all armed with spears and slings, knobbed clubs and battle-maces was pushing him out through the circle of those ghastly posts whence dangled the headless skeletons. "Where? Which way?" cried Stern. "Show me I'll do the rest!"
A great many had things like battle-maces swinging by their sides, and all these fellows carried a sort of string of big metal balls round their waist. Then a dozen regiments went by, every man with a steel shield slung over his shoulder. The last to go by were cross-bowmen."
I looked about me, and there on the left of us was a farm shelled into a heap of ruins, with one round chimney standing, shaped like the 'Flemish' chimneys in Pembrokeshire. And then the men in armour marched by, just as I had seen them French regiments. The things like battle-maces were bomb-throwers, and the metal balls round the men's waists were the bombs.
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