Excerpt from Kathie Brande, Vol. 1 of 2: A Fireside History of a Quiet Life The city proper is enclosed by walls, around which the fierce roar of battle and siege has echoed again and again. On the great south road, centuries ago, from ten miles away, came sweeping the bloody torrent of the fight up to the very gate of the town. Ghastly skeleton heads grinned in the face of the Sabbath upon the flying and pursuing hosts, till tumbled down from their spiked eminence on the battlemented bar to make way for their last year's victors. Over the Mount from Marston, after their fatal defeat, came the broken Royalists to shelter within the city. Tradition tells of the hurry and confusion at the gate as they pressed in on that glorious summer eveningz - hot, shamed, furious, beaten men, whose arms God had withheld from conquering in a weak, lost cause. 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.