The Channel
25
For their bonfires.
In the towns and villages you hear of country squires who have fled by night with their families from the coming of the fugitives.
You hear of some who have asked for a guard of soldiers.
—If only for the night. Entirely at our expense.
Their fear is quite understandable, when at night-time a great crowd overtakes you.
But no personal assaults of any kind have been heard of.
However, regarding property, no one asks:
—Whose?
You understand that by the carts of the fugitives.
One is full of wood, of fresh wood just chopped, and on top of it is tied a great bundle of hay, whilst behind hang sheaves of rye.
