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"Why then, be ye cautious each and every, for, an our foes do take alarm, so shall it be our death. March, Walkyn away!" Forthwith Walkyn lifted his axe and strode off up the slope until he and his sixty men had vanished quite into the glooming woods to the north-west. "Jenkyn, didst hear my commands to Walkyn, so shalt thou do also your post doth lie to the east, yonder."
"Not so, master, her hair is red, look'ee " "And each day she do bring us flowers, master " "And suckets, look'ee, very sweet and delicate, master." In a while Beltane arose and going from bed to bed spake with each and every, and went his way, leaving Orson and Jenkyn to their recriminations.
When I looked at them I said: "Well, this kind of thing can't last always." Then we came back home, and we had books to read which were very eloquent and amusing. I used to read Jenkyn with a good deal of pleasure, and I often thought that the atonement would have to be very broad in its provisions to cover the case of a man that would I write such a book for boys.
Kneel, Orson, bend bend thy long shanks, look'ee " and forthwith on their knees fell Jenkyn and tall Orson with pleading eyes and eager hands outstretched. "O master, look'ee, let us go!" "Aye, we do ha' changed our minds, master!" "Then be it so!" said Beltane, "and I pray ye be ever faithful to your minds!"
Quoth he: "Now, and there be any here among us so faint-hearted so unworthy as this Orson and Jenkyn, that do hold treasure and safety above flesh and blood if there be any here, who, regarding his own base body, will strike no blow for these distressed why, let him now go forth of this our company. O men!
"And look'ee master, so they be, for I ha' watered mine wi' Orson's drinking-water, while he snored, look'ee " "So Jenkyn do be thief as well, master " "Nay," said Beltane smiling, and seating himself on Orson's bed, "stint now your angers and tell me who gave ye flowers so fair?" "Master, she do be an angel!"
"Why truly, brother my lord, if one there be can twang a lusty bow and hath a cool and soldier-like head 'tis Jenkyn o' the Ford, and after him Walcher, and after him " "Jenkyn, do you henceforth look to our archers. Are these matters heard and known among ye?" "Aye!" came the thunderous answer.
Jenkyn in comparatively recent times it has managed, by throwing open its scholarships, to attract the finest scholars from all over the country. It can now boast a world-wide reputation; for the Balliol scholarship is known by all to be the chief prize offered in the University. Balliol has had many remarkable masters, but none more so than Dr.
Cnut was there, his bascinet gone, his fiery hair betousled: Tall Orson was there, leaning on a bent and battered pike, and there his comrade, Jenkyn o' the Ford, with many others that Beltane well remembered and others whose faces he knew not. So formed they their battle-scarred array what time Beltane viewed them with glowing eye and heart swelling within him.
'I'm a-cold, she said; 'the rain's cleared, and there'll be a duck's frost to-night. Abel looked up absently, humming the air he intended to play next. 'I bin in the Callow, and I've gotten a primmyrose, continued Hazel, accustomed to his ways, and not discouraged. 'And I got a bit of blackthorn, white as a lady. Abel was well on in 'Ap Jenkyn' by now.
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