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This done, he went on to the pavement to make trial of the bow; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw the string, and thrice he had to leave off, though he had hoped to string the bow and shoot through the iron.

You others, therefore, who are stronger than I, make trial of the bow and get this contest settled."

Then he turned around and quickly drew his own bow, and sent an arrow back in return.

"Now," quoth the stranger, "I will tan thy hide till it be as many colors as a beggar's cloak, if thou darest so much as touch a string of that same bow that thou holdest in thy hands."

``You have not allowed for the wind, Hubert,'' said his antagonist, bending his bow, ``or that had been a better shot.''

``This must be the devil, and no man of flesh and blood,'' whispered the yeoman to each other; ``such archery was never seen since a bow was first bent in Britain.''

Where go you, my lad, with that tupenny bow and toy arrows?

"My bow is as good as yours," he retorted, "and my shafts will carry as straight and as far.

He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside.

When Kulonga awoke he found that his bow and arrows had disappeared.