Also your bow was newly waxed; and look, the wax is rubbed where the shaft lay." "I shot at the beast, and, as I think, hit it.

At least, I could not find the arrow again, although I searched long." "Doubtless.

You do not often miss.

You have a good eye and a steady hand.

Well, the loss of a shaft will not matter, since I noticed, also, that this one was differently barbed from the others, and double feathered; a true Roman war-shaft, such as they do not make here.