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Repeating the little threat with which he had dismissed their comrades, Bladud ordered them to be off.
Hudibras himself was the last to ascend the platform. He was a fine-looking, portly man, with a great shock of black hair, a long beard, and limbs so well proportioned that he did not seem taller than other men until he stood beside them. He was a worthy sire of such a son as Bladud, though three inches shorter.
Now step into the water and follow me down stream." "Down?" exclaimed the captain in surprise, and with some hesitation. "We don't want to return to the sea whence we have just come, do we?" "Captain Arkal," returned Bladud, sternly, "when you give orders on board ship, do you expect to have them questioned, or obeyed?" "Lead on, guide," returned the captain, stepping promptly into the water.
Catching sight of the prince as he passed the tree that had concealed him, the boy doubled like a hare, ran up to Bladud, and, grasping one of his hands, cried "O! save me! save me! from robbers!" in the most agonising tones. "That will I, poor lad, if I can." He had barely time to make this reply when a man burst from the shrubbery on the other side of the tree, and almost plunged into his arms.
Mingling with the crowd they went to the river's edge, where numerous wooden canoes and coracles were busily engaged in ferrying the people over. Approaching a man, whose apparel betokened him one of the poorer class, Bladud addressed him "Can you tell me, friend, what is going on here to-day?"
He told us, however, of a mysterious boy who had nursed him in sickness, and who had somehow been lost or captured, and that poor Bladud was so fond of the boy that he had remained behind to search for him. I now know," added the princess with a laugh, "who this dear boy is, but I am greatly puzzled still about some of his doings and intentions." "Listen, then, Hafrydda, and I will tell you all."
"You understand your business, I see. Shove out your oars. We follow." Without further remark Bladud continued his progress up stream. It was necessarily slow at first, but as night advanced the moon rose, in her first quarter, and shed a feeble but sufficient light on their watery path. At last they came to a place where the leader's sharp eye observed signs of the presence of man.
Its prosperity has from time immemorial depended upon its possession of the remarkable mineral springs in which the fashionable world has at different periods discerned so many healing and social virtues. The popular story of their discovery by the legendary King Bladud is too trite to need re-telling.
What detains you?" But Bladud did not answer to the call. A stone from the enemy had fallen on his defenceless head and knocked him down insensible. Four of the men now raised him up. As they did so, one of the men the small seaman, Maikar was found underneath him in a state of semi-consciousness. While they carried Bladud aft, the little sailor began to gasp and sneeze.
Rushing forward, he was just in time to see the bull which could not check its mad career plunge over the cliff, at the bottom of which it was killed by the fall. Bladud at once began to descend to the help of the poor woman. As he did so, the words "unclean! unclean!" met his ear.
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