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Charles had to dismount and creep under an overturned hay-wagon, and, entering the gate, mounted a horse and rode to the corn-market, where he escaped with Lord Wilmot through the back door of a house, while some of his officers beat off Cobbett's troops who attacked the front. Upon this house, built in 1557, is still read the inscription, "Love God; honor the king."
The white dust, which lay thick upon the wide road between rolling fields of ripened grain, rose in little spirals from beneath the heavy feet of the plodding farm-horses drawing the empty hay-wagon, and had scarcely settled again upon the browning goldenrod and fuzzy milkweed which bordered the rail fences on either side when Ebb Fischel's itinerant butcher-jitney rattled past.
Being mounted on a carriage with fairly high wheels, these latter were taken and converted into a hay-wagon, with which, for several years, he hauled hay from the Glenbrook meadows to his barn in town. The cannon itself was mounted on a heavy wooden block to which it was affixed with iron bands, securely held in place by bolts and nuts.
"I should think," said Mabel Herold, "that if you had a good team of horses you could drive fast and get away from any wild animals you might meet." "Well, I could do that, too," replied the boy On the hay-wagon. "And if I throw all my stones, and don't hit a lion or a bear on the nose, I'll whip up and get away." "Well, I'm going to get away now," decided Nan. "Come on, Flossie and Mabel.
"In a huff," admitted Philip and dismissed the dangerous topic with a philosophic shrug. "I won't have you trailing after me on a hay-wagon!" exclaimed Diane in honest indignation. "Hum! Just how," begged Philip, "does one go about effecting a national ordinance to keep hay-carts off the highway?"
"Now, boys," shouted Anthony Sieberer, "do not allow the girl to make you blush. Quick, march behind the hay-wagon, and when you are close enough to the enemy, step forward and shoot down the gunners." Ten young lads hastened forward, amid loud cheers, and took position in pairs behind the wagon, which advanced heavily and slowly, like an enormous avalanche. There was a breathless silence.
Thereupon we quietly sauntered along behind the hay-wagon. My brother uncovered his head, and so proceeded on his way bareheaded; he said he was very warm. We walked silently for a distance until the old laborer came back to us. "Not tired, Master Desi?" he asked; "you might take a seat on the cart." "What are you thinking of, John?" said Lorand; "on this cart?"
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