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 lie far more contentedly in a ingle ton than even oldiers in the mot roomy oven: but inexorable neceity at this time acted as Quarter-mater, wearines enjoined unanimity, and leep ilence. One pair of eye-lids fell to after another, and the aociates in misfortune lept till broad day-light, though they had agreed to decamp quietly at the peep of dawn.

Before the even leepers were awake, they were dicovered by a peaant’s wife, who, for joy of the victory which was by this time noied abroad all over the country, had kneaded a cake, and wanted to bake it in hate. Looking into the oven, he perceived the lodgers, and concluded from the doublets and hoe that the guets within were ome of the runaways. She hurried into the village, and reported the dicovery to her neighbours. Immediately an army of women, equipped with pits and fire-forks, was collected; the oven was formally blockaded, and a council held how they were to proceed, and in Rh