There are also two godly men from Hungerford, who are keepers of game, and who have brought their pieces with them.' 'They are here, sir,' cried another, pointing to two stout, bearded fellows, who were ramming charges into their long-barrelled muskets.
'Their names are Wat and Nat Millman.' 'Two who can hit their mark are worth a battalion who shoot wide,' our leader remarked, 'Get under the waggon, my friends, and rest your pieces upon the spokes.

Never draw trigger until the sons of Belial are within three pikes' length of ye.' 'My brother and I,' quoth one of them, 'can hit a running doe at two hundred paces.

Our lives are in the hands of the Lord, but two, at least, of these hired butchers we shall send before us.' 'As gladly as ever we slew stoat or wild-cat,' cried the other, slipping under the waggon.

'We are keeping the Lord's preserves now, brother Wat, and truly these are some of the vermin that infest them.' 'Let all who have pistols line the waggon,' said Saxon, tying his mare to the hedge--an example which we all followed.

'Clarke, do you take charge upon the right with Sir Gervas, while Lockarby assists Master Pettigrue upon the left.