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CHAPTER XXXIII. |
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THE BATTLE. |
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E commanded the page to blow his trumpet; and, in the strength of the moment, the youth uttered a right warlike defiance. |
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But the butchers and the guard, who had gone
over armed to the enemy, thinking that the king
had come to make his peace also, and that it might
thereafter go hard with them, rushed at once to make
short work with him, and both secure and commend
themselves. The butchers came on first—for the guards
had slackened their saddle-girths—brandishing their
knives, and talking to their dogs. Curdie and the page,
with Lina and her pack, bounded to meet them. Curdie
struck down the foremost with his mattock. The
page, finding his sword too much for him, threw it
away and seized the butcher's knife, which as he rose he
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