The distance is very short, not more than eight or ten yards at the outside.

We have, I see, any number of horses and not a few carts.
Let the tenants be set to work at once, and, going down the road into the ravine below, fill their carts with blocks of stone and haul them up here.

Let active boys be sent out in all directions as scouts to bring in word when the insurgents are approaching; and at the same time let twenty well armed men of the garrison go down with the carts, so as to give confidence to the tenants and cover their retreat up the road if the insurgents should suddenly make their appearance.

Let some of the men take billhooks and axes down with them, and cut poles.

These must be sharpened, and as the walls are built, fixed among the stones so as to make a cheval-de-frise.