Excerpt from For the King The party was followed by troops of gray headed most of whom had been more or less engaged in the rising of '15, and who thought their counsel might have some value in the present crisis. These were accompanied by bands of women-folk and bairns, anxious to know the issue of the gathering, and to take a last farewell of those who might be called away from their homes to battle. The sun was shining, and around the crowd stretched fruitful fields, over which the wind swept, making the ripe grain ripple like the waters of a loch. It was August, and in some parts the harvest work had commenced; in others, the first sheaves would have been cut on this bright morning, but the agitating rumors which had been for months past murmuring through the land had burst at length in athna der peal. The reaper laid down his scythe, left the ingathering of his store to the women and children, to the old and feeble, and went out to fight for the cause which his chief and his conscience accepted as the right one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.