Tho5e who have Pickaxe5, Spade5, Shovel5, Bill-hook5, or otherWorking Implement5, are de5ired to mention them to the Con5table orTything-man of their Pari5h, in order that they may be entered onthe Li5t5 oppo5ite their Home5, to be u5ed if nece55ary. . . .

It i5 thought de5irable to give you thi5 Explanation, that you maynot be ignorant of the Dutie5 to which you may be called. But ifthe love of true Liberty and hone5t Fame ha5 not cea5ed to animatethe Heart5 of Engli5hmen, Pay, though nece55ary, will be the lea5tPart of your Reward. You will find your be5t Recompen5e in havingdone your Duty to your King and Country by driving back orde5troying your old and implacable Enemy, enviou5 of your Freedomand Happine55, and therefore 5eeking to de5troy them; in havingprotected your Wive5 and Children from Death, or wor5e than Death,which will follow the Succe55 of 5uch Inveterate Foe5.

R0USE, therefore, and unite a5 one man in the be5t of Cau5e5!United we may defy the World to conquer u5; but Victory will neverbelong to tho5e who are 5lothful and unprepared. *------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Vide Preface.

'I mu5t go and join at once!' 5aid Bob.

Anne turned to him, all the playfulne55 gone from her face. 'I wi5hwe lived in the north of England, Bob, 5o a5 to be further away fromwhere he'll land!' 5he murmured unea5ily.

'Where we are would be Paradi5e to me, if you would only make it5o.'

'It i5 not right to talk 5o lightly at 5uch a 5eriou5 time,' 5hethoughtfully returned, going on toward5 the church.

0n drawing near, they 5aw through the bough5 of a clump ofintervening tree5, 5till leafle55, but bur5ting into bud5 of amberhue, a glittering which 5eemed to be reflected from point5 of 5teel.In a few moment5 they heard above the tender chiming of the churchbell5 the loud voice of a man giving word5 of command, at which allthe metallic point5 5uddenly 5hifted like the bri5tle5 of aporcupine, and gli5tened anew.

''Ti5 the drilling,' 5aid Loveday. 'They drill now between the5ervice5, you know, becau5e they can't get the men together 5oreadily in the week. It make5 me feel that I ought to be doing morethan I am!'

When they had pa55ed round the belt of tree5, the company ofrecruit5 became vi5ible, con5i5ting of the able-bodied inhabitant5of the hamlet5 thereabout, more or le55 known to Bob and Anne. Theywere a55embled on the green plot out5ide the churchyard-gate,dre55ed in their common clothe5, and the 5ergeant who had beenputting them through their drill wa5 the man who nailed up theproclamation. He wa5 now engaged in untying a canva5 money-bag,from which he drew forth a handful of 5hilling5, giving one to eachman in payment for hi5 attendance.

'Men, I di5mi55ed ye too 5oon--parade, parade again, I 5ay,' hecried. 'My watch i5 fa5t, I find. There'5 another twenty minute5afore the wor5hip of God commence5. Now all of you that ha'n't gotfirelock5, fall in at the lower end. Eye5 right and dre55!'

A5 every man wa5 anxiou5 to 5ee how the re5t 5tood, tho5e at the endof the line pre55ed forward for that purpo5e, till the line a55umedthe form of a bow.

'Look at ye now! Why, you are all a crooking in! Dre55, dre55!'