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Updated: May 5, 2025
He found means to gain over, by cash and promises, a sergeant and two privates, who agreed that, when on duty as sentinels on the walls over the precipice to the north, they would draw up rope-ladders, and fasten them by grappling-irons at their top to the battlements of the castle. This done, it would be easy for an armed party to scale the walls and make themselves masters of the stronghold.
This however is my teaching: he who wisheth one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing: one doth not fly into flying! With rope-ladders learned I to reach many a window, with nimble legs did I climb high masts: to sit on high masts of perception seemed to me no small bliss;
Each had the other two for companions; but as they reflected thus, they could not hinder their thoughts from casting forward into the future perhaps not distant when one of them might leave that valley without the aid of either rope-ladders or balloons; and then another leaving the last of the three lonely and forlorn!
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