. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. which thelinnets build—a greatcleft in the moorside,and a notch against theblue sky where itclimbed over the hill-tops to east and little those ramp-ing Picts cared for thesacredness of boun-daries ; they pouredthrough Agricolas great ditch wheneverthey got a* chance, andkilled and burned rightdown to Eboracum inmiddle England. Sopresently Hadrian cameover in turn, andnorthward by horseand chariot till he washere in the fell-country— a man not to betrifled with, quick, dark,and keen, with fierce bright eyes shi
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. which thelinnets build—a greatcleft in the moorside,and a notch against theblue sky where itclimbed over the hill-tops to east and little those ramp-ing Picts cared for thesacredness of boun-daries ; they pouredthrough Agricolas great ditch wheneverthey got a* chance, andkilled and burned rightdown to Eboracum inmiddle England. Sopresently Hadrian cameover in turn, andnorthward by horseand chariot till he washere in the fell-country— a man not to betrifled with, quick, dark,and keen, with fierce bright eyes shining out under those penthouseeyebrows you may note in the portraits which hiscoins bear in your museum cases. By his orders,it is supposed, they built, eighteen hundred yearsago, that wall from Tyne to Solway, over hill anddale, which shines to-day in the summer sun al- most as perfect in places as it was when the laststone was set and fixed, and the hard Roman mortarsettled down to withstand all that the Picts and theblows and buffets of eighteen hundred northern. r k^j^^ THEY SWARM UP THE STEEP APPROACH, AND SURGE AGAINST HADRIANS BULWARK. winters could do. Eight feet wide at the base, six-teen feet high when it was perfect, the great wallturned an adamant face to the northward. Not astoat or a weasel could pass through between thetwo seas save at some half dozen gates placed at in-tervals of several miles along its course, and each STORIES FROM ANCIENT DAYS 285 of these portals led directly into military camps,whereof the walls and buildings are still tracedby ruins even to-day. Between Hadrians walland Agricolas foss to the south of it is a stripof country about a quarter of a mile wide, and itwas this the Romans garrisoned with necessarysoldiers—tall Belgians, fair-haired Goths, duskySpaniards, even Africans and Arabs from theoutlying provinces of their realm. How the hillsheep must have stared, and the ancestors of Gaul or Belgium, and if you try hard enough,how ea
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