The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 16
in the morning until four in theafternoon without one valorous warrior beingkilled or even being wounded. Do you wonderthat Cervantes made such sport of those men inkettles and stove-pipe, as he did in his marvelousstory of Don Quixote ? But, as necessity is called the mother of invention,weapons,… … 212 HISTORIC TALES OF OLDEN TIMES FOR LITTLE FOLK As gunpowder came into use in battle, and sci-ence improved the methods of warfare, the ironcoats were found to be of little avail as a protec-tion against shot and shell. Men grew braver asthey dropped the heavy plates behind which theyhad hidden…
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