With the rope we were to drop ourselves over the wall the other side.

It was thirty feet high--no fool of a drop.

More than one man had been picked up disabled at the bottom of it.

He had a short stout piece of iron that did to hammer the spikes in; and that had to be done very soft and quiet, you may be sure.
It took a long time.

I thought the night would be over and the daylight come before it was all done; it was so slow.