At dusk we walked up to the crest before the church.

All through the valley the men and boys had been busy, and as darkness settled down, blaze after blaze sprung forth until every hillside was dotted with flaming heaps.

On every church and farm-house of large size, straight lines of little bonfires were built along the edges of the roof.

There must have been many hundreds of fires in sight at once.

Meanwhile, all the churches of the little hamlets around clanged their bells discordantly.