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are all singing songs of triumph; ere long, if you
and I live, we'll hear them singing to a very different
tune.’

‘Ah, sir knight,’ said Walter, smiling, ‘you say
this from national jealousy, and because they call us
* Knelish tails.” ’

‘* Knglish tails!” ” repeated Bisset, scornfully; «I
tell you, for your comfort, that when the hour of
real danger arrives, we “ English tails” are likely to
find our way so deep into the Saracens’ ranks, that
not a bragging Frenchman will venture to come nigh
the tails of our war-steeds.’

‘By St. John of Beverley,’ exclaimed Guy, laugh-
ing merrily, ‘I cannot but think that the French
and English Crusaders are already inclined to hate
each other much more than either French or English
hate the Saracens.’