As he finished speaking there was a yell of defiance, and the column rushed forward.
"Aim low," Hector shouted as he leapt down among his men, "fire!" Eight muskets flashed out.

"Second line, fire! Now handle your pikes, the rear lines will reserve their fire." Although ten or twelve of the leading rank of the insurgents had fallen, there was no pause among the others, and they rushed forward to the hedge of pikes.
"Take charge here, MacIntosh; I will run and get the stones at work." In half a minute he stood by the side of the tenants.
"Heave then down!" he said.

He had chosen a spot where the rock rose perpendicularly above the road.

"Drop them over," he said, "so that they may fall straight.

The biggest you must roll over with your levers, but work them to the edge and let them topple over; don't thrust them out or they will bound over the road.