'At trick-track or trap and ball you were ever our best player.' 'Ah, Micah,' said he, 'I bless the day that ever I followed you to the wars.

I would not change places with Monmouth this day.' 'Has it gone so far then!' I exclaimed.

'Why, lad, I thought that you were but opening your trenches, and you speak as though you had carried the city.' 'Perhaps I am over-hopeful,' he cried, turning from hot to cold, as a man doth when he is in love, or hath the tertian ague, or other bodily trouble.

'God knows that I am little worthy of her, and yet--' 'Set not your heart too firmly upon that which may prove to be beyond your reach,' said I.'The old man is rich, and will look higher.' 'I would he were poor!' sighed Reuben, with all the selfishness of a lover.

'If this war last I may win myself some honour or title.