164 THE BOY CRUSADERS,

one to another, as Bisset withdrew; ‘ these islanders
are so timid, that they will next be afraid of their
own shadows.’

‘By the head of St. Keteccee said a knight, who
had been attached to the Count of Artois, ‘I hate
the tailed English so, that I would leave the bridge
as it is, if only to mortify one of them.’