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Down in the fortification every man seemed to have sprung to his post. On its outer crest, with his adjutant, stood the gilded commander peering through his glass. "Missie," sighed Anna's maid, "see Mahs' Chahlie dah? stan'in' on de woodworks o' dat big gun?" "Yes," said Anna carelessly, but mutely praying that some one would make him get down.
By the heavens above, it is he of the white banner! it is the sorcerer! Fire on him! he is without the shelter of the woodworks." Twenty shafts, from wearied and nerveless arms, fell innocuous round the form of Almamen: and as, waving aloft his ominous banner, he disappeared again behind the screen-works, the Spaniards almost fancied they could hear his exulting and demon laugh.
On this the besiegers brought up mangonels, and set them hurling huge stones at these woodworks and battering them to pieces. Contemporaneously they built a triangular wooden tower as high as the curtain, and kept it ready for use, and just out of shot. This was a terrible sight to the besieged. These wooden towers had taken many a town.
By the heavens above, it is he of the white banner! it is the sorcerer! Fire on him! he is without the shelter of the woodworks." Twenty shafts, from wearied and nerveless arms, fell innocuous round the form of Almamen: and as, waving aloft his ominous banner, he disappeared again behind the screen-works, the Spaniards almost fancied they could hear his exulting and demon laugh.
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