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And Hers equally fierce, bold to the verge of reckless madness, as these Gallic warriors The teh which they waded, only see in their exulting shouts and yells

Oh, yes! To march amid this uproar of the elements was a pleasure to the healthy ht For a long ti of the wind and the rushing of the rain in their northern home It seemed a delicious relief, after the heat and dryness of the south, which they had endured with groans

When they perceived the eyes fixed upon the their weapons, arched their breasts with conscious vanity, distorted their faces into terrible threatening grile horns to their lips, drew froloated, with childish delight, in the terror of the gaping crowd, on whom the restraint of authority sternly forbade thelittered inlook, but their leaders kept the, like a thunderstornant with destruction which the wind drives over a terrified village

Her the Gauls a long start, he set out again

But though he succeeded in passing the ion without injury, there had been delay after delay; here the horses had left the flooded dike road and floundered up to their knees in the morass, there trees from the roadside, uprooted by the storht closed in the rain ceased and the wind began to subside, but dark clouds covered the sky, and the horsemen were still an hour's ride from the place where the road ended at the little harbour from which travellers entered the boat which conveyed theh the h tilled lands, and crossed the ditches which irrigated the fields on wooden bridges

On their account, in the dense darkness which prevailed, caution was necessary, and this the guide certainly did not lack He rode at a sloalk in front of the artist, and had just pointed out to hi place of the boat which went to Tennis, when Hermon was suddenly startled by a loud cry, followed by clattering and splashing

With swift presence offroe had broken down, and horse and rider had fallen into the broad canal