"I suppose, Douglas, we all like best that in which we most excel.

There are many knights in the English army who would assuredly overthrow me either in the tilting ring or in the field, for I had not the training on horseback when quite young which is needed to make a perfect knight, while I had every advantage in the learning of sword playing, and I stick to my own trade.

The world is beginning to learn that a man on foot is a match for a horseman--Wallace taught Europe that lesson.

They are slow to believe it, for hitherto armed knights have deemed themselves invincible, and have held in contempt all foot soldiers.

Stirling, and Falkirk, and Loudon Hill have taught them the difference, but it will be a long time before they fairly own a fact so mortifying to chivalry; but the time will come, be well assured, when battles will be fought almost with infantry alone.