The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 16
old in thus crawling forsafety into suits of steel and iron, while the poor HISTORIC TALES OF OLDEN TIMES FOR LITTLE FOLK 211 people who followed their banners to the wars-vassals and serfs, archers and billmen—had noth-ing but leather jerkins and iron head-pieces(often not even these) to protect… … BUBCONET in THE TOWER ^HAroUEBUSIERSMfiRn=CASQUETEL five centuries, the cross-bow, or arbalist, was afavorite weapon in warand in the chase. Andmany a boy of those oldendays was taught either bythe armorer of his fatherscastle, or by that sameknightly father, the baron and lord of themanor, how to…
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