With pretence from Strephon her to guard, / He met her full; but full of warefulness.

like blue bottle flees in a blink of sunshine, […]A bonny bike there's o ' them !

The events of these sieges show that a bold and vigorous sortie in force might carry destruction through every part of a besieger's approaches, where the guard is injudiciously disposed and ill commanded; but that if due precautions have been observed in forming the approaches and posting the defenders, any sortie from a besieged place must be checked with loss in their advance, when the approaches are still distant; or when the approaches are near, should a sortie succeed in pushing into them by a sudden rush, the assailants must inevitably be driven out again in a moment, with terrible slaughter.

Prichard, our best authority on this subject, apportions the greater part of the habitable globe to the melonic or dark-haired races.