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Updated: May 12, 2025
For here the artillery was plying the briskest, pouring down volley on volley; and four regiments at least stood mass'd behind, ready to fall on the Cornish-men; who, answering with a small discharge of musketry, now ran forward more nimbly. To catch up with them, I must now turn my course obliquely up the hill, where running was pretty toilsome.
As the procession started, all on board waved their caps and broke out singing. They were Cornish-men and knew no music-hall songs "It's a long way to Tipperary" or anything of the sort. Led by a fugleman in the first brake, they started singing it in fine harmonies "He's the Lily of the Valley, O my soul!"
One can imagine it to be the national song of the Cornish-men after the expedition.
The miners here are generally Cornish-men, with some Germans. I sit silent, thinking of my Prince Charming, with many vague conjectures. At first, these men have paused in their repast in presence of the strangers; but now, with rude courtesy, noticing our weariness, they offer a portion to us. Faint and famishing, we by no means disdain it. I wonder what Mrs.
Meanwhile the English archers, continuing to shoot as fast as ever, shot down great numbers of the French soldiers and knights; whom certain sly Cornish-men and Welshmen, from the English army, creeping along the ground, despatched with great knives.
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