.

HOW ALLEYNE LEARNED MORE THAN HE COULD TEACH.
And now there came a time of stir and bustle, of furbishing of arms and clang of hammer from all the southland counties.

Fast spread the tidings from thorpe to thorpe and from castle to castle, that the old game was afoot once more, and the lions and lilies to be in the field with the early spring.

Great news this for that fierce old country, whose trade for a generation had been war, her exports archers and her imports prisoners.

For six years her sons had chafed under an unwonted peace.
Now they flew to their arms as to their birthright.