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But when they saw me coming up the slope of the hill, and when they knew what it was that sat upon my shoulders, they were smitten with fear. Yet they did not run, because of their great wonder, only they walked backward before me, clinging each to each and saying nothing.
Nowhere was the fight fiercer than where the young Black Prince led the van of the English; and from a windmill on a near hill, the eager eyes of King Edward watched with pride that figure clad in black armour ever in the thick of the fight, and never halting an instant where danger or duty called. It would be too long to tell of all the fighting that day.
In almost every noteworthy war since the foundation of the country, men of my line have borne a part. I count ancestors who stood among the minute-men at Concord bridge. Another was in the redoubt at Bunker Hill. In the earlier time two great-great-grandfathers went out against Montcalm and were good soldiers in the Old French War.
We who live on this hill used to be called Cranae; but since King Cecrops came, we have been so busy that we have had no time to think of names." "Where is this King Cecrops?" asked the woman. "He is in the market place with the wise men," was the answer. "Lead us to him at once," said the man.
He pointed out a cave wherein British soldiers had been forced to take refuge to save themselves from the pursuit of victorious patriots, but what they had supposed was a refuge was, indeed, a trap, for the patriots smoked them out and took them to General Green's camp. We drove upon a hill top, and, looking across a valley, I saw a large brick house on a hill not far beyond.
"Your most profest Admirers and most humble Servants, "Astraea and Minerva Hill. "PLAISTOW the 27th of July 1749." Richardson's reply to this ingenuous criticism is dated the 4th of August.
"He took a bugle from his side, and blew both loud and shrill, And four and twenty belted knights came trooping owre the hill;" "Then he took out his little knife, let a' his duddies fa', And he was the brawest gentleman that was among them a'."
It was 5 o'clock or after when a loud shout and some firing were heard on the right, and, supposing this to be Magruder's attack, Hill led his men to the charge. He carried the first line of the enemy, who, unoccupied elsewhere, reënforced at once, and Hill was beaten off with severe loss.
"Toute leur etude etait de se complaire et de s'entr'aider." * PAUL ET VIRGINIE. At the foot of a steep, slippery, white hill, near Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, called Chalk Hill, there is a hut, or rather a hovel, which travellers could scarcely suppose could be inhabited, if they did not see the smoke rising from its peaked roof.
It is true that he had superficially looked over the ground, once, from the top of the Pozo hill; but he could get, in that way, very little accurate knowledge of the topography of the region, and still less of the Spaniards' defensive strength.
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