25/35 A fiercely quarrelsome folk, a peace-keeping, gentle folk will sound their note very soon. These belonged to the latter kind. Their lances were not our huge knightly ones, nor the light, hard ones of the Moors. They were hardly more than stout canes, the head not iron--they had no iron--but flint or bone shaped by a flint knife. Where the paint was not splashed or patterned over them, their faces could be liked very well. |