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The ridge continues towards Heathfield, Burwash, and Battle, and beyond the sun glistens on Fairlight over Hastings, where another beacon has blazed all night to tell the ships that the royal enemy is in the forest. Now look northward and northeast.
Kipling and the following reply was received from him: Bateman's Burwash, Sussex. Dear Sir: I am much obliged for your verses of Sept. 4. "The Truce of the Bear," to which they refer, was written sixteen years ago, in 1898. It dealt with a situation and a menace which have long since passed away, and with issues that are now quite dead.
Here I stop where I have dwelt these five-and-forty years, to live or die as God pleases. Get you to your duty, man. Stay. Call those wenches and bid them fly inland to their folk, out Burwash way. They are young and fleet of foot, and no Frenchman will catch them." I summoned the girls who were staring, white-faced, from the attic window-place.
Nevertheless, when the camp had been struck and the canoes loaded, the order of march was reversed. Now the men took the lead by a good margin, and the women and children followed. For in the wooded country game drinks early. "Can you read Injun writin'?" asked Dick. "I can't." "Yes," replied Sam, "learned her when I was snowed up one winter with Scar-Face down by the Burwash Lake country."
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