102 The Flame-Flower
hewed them down with
his axe on all sides, until
he had made a wall of

dead wolves around him.

Then he ran, turning at

each few paces to hew them

down, until the few remain-
ing slunk back to the forests

ZB in fear.

Griffith hewed his way through the
outer ring of the foemen ; and Evan and
his men saw him from within the pali-
sade, and sent a thick flight of arrows
on those around him; so that Evan
reached the palisade and climbed over.

Certain of the besiegers drew off,
and returned with great loads of brush-
wood, piling them against the palisade.
The wolf-woman ran to them.

“Not fire! Not fire!” she
cried. ‘Hew them with the
sword ; pierce them with the ja-
velin; beat down
the palisade —
but not fire!”