Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 374
hes of steel. The long-bowmen of England cordially hatedthe arbalisters, especially when it came to shootinggame in the green woods. The good yeomen whohad spent years of unremitting practice to becomeproficient with the famous Norman long-bow, couldnot bear to see lazy fellows, who had never given… … £K jun must be some- OHD-TIME CROSS-BOWMAN WITH HIS ARBALIST. of England passed stringent laws against the arbal-ist, and the weapon became somewhat dishonored.But in Fiance and Spain it held the supremacyover all the weapons of the chase. Even to thisday in Spain a hunter is called ballastcro,…
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