The life of Sir William Wallace, the governor general of Scotland, and hero of the Scottish chiefs. By Peter Donaldson.

SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. 69
I pray thee, with all thy might and haste; I shall as.
sist you, as much as a woman can do in the case of
retributive justice." Then he enquired of her of
Robert Boyd, William Crawford, Adam Wallace,
&c. ana scampered off to Longlandwood and mourned for his dear friends.
Meantime Lord Arnulf sent fifteen well harnessed
Englishmen and a Macer to bring him back to law.
They rode furiously to Wallace, who turned upon
them with his broad claymore in his hand. The first
of his numerous enemies he cut asunder through the
middle; ihe next received a fatal blow; the third he
clave down through the body; the fourth he levelled
to the ground; and the fifth he felled dead on the spot.
Three men who were with him killed another five
of the enemy, and the rest fled to tell their lord how
f;en men out of fifteen were killed by four Scots, concluding that all. would have shared the same fate, if
their horses had not carried them away in full speed,
and that the Scots were so fierce and strong, that
every stroke laid one of them dead on the field.
The Southetons all concluded that Wallace must
have been in that encounter, and a Knight answered,
" if Wallace hath escaped this justice Ayre, then all
that we have done is in vain." Arnulf replied,
" what would ye do if there were many enemies, when
you seem to be frightened at one man, and although
he was there I would count the matter light, who stays
here shall be a Knight in these realms, and I shall
deal out the lands of Scots dispatched yesterday, to
true Englishmen in the morning.'"
The Southerons all repaired to their quarters.Four thousand men lodged in the town and Barnsof