luable part of the booty. He threw himself upon the saddle, and galloped off through the wood.
When the bustle occasioned by this incident was somewhat composed, the chief Outlaw took from his neck the rich horn and baldric which he had recently gained at the strife of archery near Ashby.
"Noble knight," he said to him of the Fetterlock, "if you disdain not to grace by your acceptance a bugle which I have once worn, this I will pray you to keep as a memorial of your gallant bearing—and if ye have aught to do, and as happeneth oft to a gallant knight, ye chance to be hard bested in any forest between Trent and Teen, wind three mots[1] upon the horn thus, Wa-sa-hoa! and it may well chance ye shall find helpers and rescue."
He then gave breath to the bugle, and winded once and again the call which he described, until the knight had caught the notes.
- ↑ The notes upon the bugle were anciently called mots, and are distinguished in the old treaties on hunting, not by musical characters, but by written words.
