Had De Laville some older heads to assist him ?" "No, he and that young cousin of his, riding next to him, acted entirely by themselves; and the cousin, who is an English lad, is the one who invented that barricade of bullocks that stopped you." "That was a rare device," De Brissac said.

"I fought my way to it, once, but there was no possibility of climbing it.

It is rather mortifying to my pride, to have been so completely beaten by the device of a lad like that.

He ought to make a great soldier, some day, De la Noue.".