Send off all your more valuable goods in the wagons, with your women and children, to a distance.

We shall fight all the better if we know that they are all in safety.

Some of the old men and boys will suffice for this work.

And now, methinks, you had best summon the men, for there will be work for them tonight." The bell which was used to call the hands from their work in the fields and woods at sunset soon sounded, and the men in surprise came trooping in at the summons.

When they were assembled the farmer told them the news he had heard, and the determination which had been arrived at to defend the village.
After the first movement of alarm caused by the name of the dreaded band of the Wolfsburg had subsided Malcolm was glad to see an expression of stout determination come over the faces of the assemblage, and all declared themselves ready to fight to the last.