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Updated: May 1, 2025
'Well, well, there may be more truth in that than you are aware of, quoth Saxon, riding upon Lockarby's bridle arm, so that there was scarce room for him to fall between us. 'I had sooner fight a man like that young fool at the inn, who knew a little of the use of his weapon, than one like Micah here, or yourself, who know nothing.
'Why, to recover my mare if it can anywise be done, said the adventurer. Though on this vast moor, in the dark, she will be as difficult to find as a Scotsman's breeches or a flavourless line in "Hudibras." 'And Reuben Lockarby's steed can go no further, I remarked. 'But do mine eyes deceive me, or is there a glimmer of light over yonder? 'A Will-o'-the-wisp, said Saxon.
Lockarby's pikemen and my own company of scythesmen were mostly labourers from the country, who were hardened against all weathers, and plodded patiently along with the rain-drops glistening upon their ruddy faces. In front were the Taunton foot; behind, the lumbering train of baggage waggons, with the horse in the rear of them. So the long line wound its way over the hills.
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