2/30 When I was a boy I was tending a herd of goats far up in the hills, and near the pass where this mischance has today befallen us I found a cave in the mountain's side. Its entrance was hidden by bushes, and I should not have found it had not one of the goats entered the bush and remained there so long that I went to see what he was doing. The entrance was but three feet high, but inside it widened out into a great cavern, where fifty men could shelter. "Tell the vassals to gather here three hours before daybreak. |