'
As he spake they heard the sound of men marching in the wood behind
them, and they turned about and saw that there was come Wood-wise,
and with him upwards of two score and ten of the bowmen of the
Woodlanders and the Wolf--huntsmen, cragsmen, and scourers of the
Waste; men who could shoot the chaffinch on the twig a hundred yards
aloof; who could make a hiding-place of the bennets of the wayside
grass, or the stem of the slender birch-tree. With these must needs
be Bow-may, who was the closest shooter of all the kindreds.
So then Wood-wise told the War-leader that Dallach had given the word
to the Host, and that all men were astir and would be there presently
in their ordered companies; and Face-of-god spake to Folk-might, and
said: 'Chief of the Wolf, wilt thou not give command to these
bowmen, and set them to the work; for thou wottest thereof.'
'Yea, that will I,' said Folk-might, and turned to Wood-wise, and
said: 'Wood-wise, get ye down the slope, and loose on these felons,
who have a murder on hand, if so be ye have a chance to do it wisely.
But in any case come ye all back; for all shall be needed yet to-day.
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