I do not pretend that I could stand against any man-at-arms, armed with sword and mace; but only that I thought that, with my horse, I could evade the shock of a fully-accoutred man, and then harass and maybe wound him with my spear." "Well, we will try, lad.

Put on what you will, and get your horse saddled.

It will be rare amusement to see so unequal a course.

We shall be ready in a quarter of an hour." Oswald went up to his uncle, and told him what was proposed.

Alwyn, who had witnessed his exercises with the rough riders of his father, smiled grimly.
"If you can evade his first charge, which I doubt not that you can, you will have him at your mercy, with your light spear against his lance, and your moor horse against his charger; but put on the heaviest of your two steel caps, and strong shoulder pieces.