CHAPTER II.
MUSIC IN THE TOWN SQUARE.
This window looked upon the Town Square, and across it to the Mayoralty.

The square had once been the Franciscans' burial-ground, and was really no square at all, but a semicircle.

The townspeople called it Mount Folly.

The chord of the arc was formed by a large Assize Hall, with a broad flight of granite steps, and a cannon planted on either side of the steps.

The children used to climb about these cannons, and Taffy had picked out his first letters from the words _Sevastopol_ and _Russian Trophy_, painted in white on their lead-coloured carriages.
Below the Assize Hall an open gravelled space sloped gently down to a line of iron railings and another flight of granite steps leading into the main street.