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 that the leader of its guard was but a young man new to war. But they were best to have left it alone, for Osberne was well ware of them; and to be short, he so ambushed the ambushers that he had them in the trap, and slew them every one: small harm it was of the death of them. Now this was the first time in his warfare that his men fell on with the name of him in their mouths, and cried: The Red Lad! the Red Lad! Terrible indeed became that cry in no very long time.