2. "What makes thee judge so?" said the Knight. 3. "Because I have twice or thrice noticed the glance of a morrion from amongst the green leaves. Had they been honest men, they had kept the path. But yonder thicket is a choice chapel for the Clerks of St. Nicholas." 4. "By my faith," said the Knight, closing his visor, "I think thou beest in the right on't." 5. And in good time did he close it, for three arrows flew at the same instant from the suspected spot against his head and breast, one of which would have penetrated to the brain, had it not been turned aside by the steel visor. The other two were averted by the gorget, and by the shield which hung around his neck. 6. " Thanks, trusty armourer," said the Knight. "Wamba, let us close with them," and he rode straight to the thicket. He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career. Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. The Black Knight's eyes seemed to flash fire even through the aperture of his visor. He raised himself in his stirrups with an air of inexpressible dignity, and exclaimed, "What means this, my masters ?" The men made no other reply than by drawing their swords and attacking him on every side, crying, "Die, tyrant!" 7. "Ha! Saint Edward! Ha! Saint George!" said the Black Knight, striking down a man at every invocation; "have we traitors here ?" 8. His opponents, desperate as they were, bore back from an arm which carried death in every blow, and it seemed as if the terror of his single strength was about to gain the battle against such odds, when a knight in blue armour, who had hitherto kept himself behind the other assailants, spurred forward with his lance, and taking aim, not at the rider, but at the steed, wounded the noble animal mortally. 9. "That was a felon stroke!" exclaimed the Black Knight, as the steed fell to the earth, bearing his rider along with him. 10. And at this moment Wamba winded the bugle, for the whole had passed so G speedily that he had not time to do so sooner. The sudden sound made the murderers bear back once more, and Wamba, though so imperfectly weaponed, did not hesitate to rush in and assist the Black Knight to rise. 11. "Shame on ye, false cowards!" exclaimed he in the blue armour, who seemed to lead the assailants; "do ye fly from the empty blast of a horn blown by a Jester?" 12. Animated by his words, they attacked the Black Knight anew, whose best refuge was now to place his back against an oak, and defend himself with his sword. The felon knight, who had taken another spear, watching the moment when his formidable antagonist was most closely pressed, galloped against him in hopes to nail him with his lance against the tree, when his purpose was again intercepted by Wamba. The Jester, making up by agility the want of strength, and little noticed by the men-at-arms, who were busied in their more important object, hovered on the skirts of the fight, and effectually checked the fatal career of the Blue Knight, by hamstringing his horse with a stroke of his sword. 13. Horse and man fell; yet the situation of the Knight of the Fetterlock continued very precarious, as he was pressed close by several men completely armed, and began to be fatigued by the violent exertions necessary to defend himself on so many points at nearly the same moment, when a grey-goose shaft suddenly stretched on the earth one of the most formidable of his assailants, and a band of yeomen broke forth from the glade, headed by Locksley and the jovial Friar, who, taking ready and effectual part in the fray, soon disposed of the ruffians, all of whom lay on the spot dead or mortally wounded. The Black Knight thanked his deliverers with a dignity they had not observed in his former bearing, and hitherto had seemed rather that of a blunt bold soldier, than of a person of exalted rank. Grammar.-(1) Parse "The Black Knight thanked his deliverers with a dignity they had not observed in his former bearing." (2) Make adjectives from following adverbs-instantaneously, grizzly, saintly. LESSON XX. SCENE FROM "IVANHOE."-PART II. unhelm, to take off the helmet. grizzled, somewhat grey. Waldemar Fitzurse, a lord of Rich- thy father's son, John (of Anjou), who 1. "It prostrate carcasses, dead bodies; a term of contempt. attaint, here means call in question; sully. transgressions behests, commands. Robin Hood, said by some to be the me much," he said, "even before I express my full gratitude |