He wanted next a bag with some provisions; they
had to make one out of fifteen oxhides, and they filled it with food,
and away he went down the hill with the bag on his back and the club on
his shoulder.
When he came so far that the enemy saw him, they sent a soldier to ask
him if he was going to fight them.
"Yes; but wait a little till I have had something to eat," said the
youngster. He threw himself down on the grass and began to eat with the
big bag of food in front of him.
But the enemy would not wait, and commenced to fire at him at once, till
it rained and hailed around him with bullets.
"I don't mind these crowberries a bit," said the youngster, and went on
eating harder than ever. Neither lead nor iron took any effect upon him,
and his bag with food in front of him guarded him against the bullets as
if it were a rampart.
So they commenced throwing bomb-shells and firing cannons at him. He
only grinned a little every time he felt them.
"They don't hurt me a bit," he said. But just then he got a bomb-shell
right down his windpipe.
"Fy!" he shouted, and spat it out again; but then a chain-shot made its
way into his butter-can, and another carried away the piece of food he
held between his fingers.
That made him angry; he got up and took his big club and struck the
ground with it, asking them if they wanted to take the food out of his
mouth, and what they meant by blowing crowberries at him with those
pea-shooters of theirs.
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