'
Red-wolf smiled as he answered: 'This ye say in jest, brother; for
ye may see that our day's journey hath not been over-much for our old
men; how then should it weary those who may yet bear sword? We are
ready for the road and eager for the handplay.'
'This is well,' said Folk-might, 'and what was to be looked for.
Therefore, brother, do ye and your counsel-mates come straightway to
the Hall of the Wolf; wherein, after ye have eaten and drunken, shall
we take counsel with our brethren of Burgdale and the Sheepcotes, so
that all may be ordered for battle!'
Said Red-wolf: 'Good is that, if we must needs abide till to-morrow;
for verily we came not hither to eat and drink and rest our bodies;
but it must be as ye will have it.'
Then the Sun-beam left the hand of Face-of-god and came forward, and
held out both her palms to the Woodland-folk, and spake in a voice
that was heard afar, though it were a woman's, so clear and sweet it
was; and she said:
'O Warriors of the Sundering, ye who be not needed in the Hall, and
ye our sisters with your little ones and your fathers, come now to us
and down to the tents which we have arrayed for you, and there think
for a little that we are all at our very home that we long for and
have yet to win, and be ye merry with us and make us merry.
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