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"Speak to him, and ask him to leave the land in peace," he said. Now I thought that was of little use, but I would do the king's bidding, and asked what I should say. "Offer him ransom, if you will," Eadmund answered. So I went forward, and stood at a bowshot's length from our people, leaning on the axe that Lodbrok had made me, and there waited till the Danes came on.
Howbeit, he had not gone a bowshot's length when he saw a knight coming disorderly against him, and he sate upon a great black horse and he had a shield of the same and a spear. And the spear was somewhat thick near the point and burned with a great flame, foul and hideous, and the flame came down as far as over the knight's fist.
He said aloud of motor-cars, and specially of steam ones, all the things which I had read in the faces of superior coachmen. Then he pulled slantwise across me. There was a vociferous steam air-pump attached to that car which could be applied at pleasure.... The cart was removed about a bowshot's length in seven and a quarter seconds, to the accompaniment of parcels clattering.
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