. St. Nicholas [serial] . AS FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, The soldiers of Tollydobs brave army hadnot even time to seize their weapons; for sucha foe, coming upon them through the air, hadnever been dreamed of. And the men of Nole, who might have re-sisted the enemy, were too much frightened todo more than tremble violently and gasp withopen mouths. As for the women and children,they fled screaming into the houses and bolted I9°5-] OR, THE STORY OF THE MAGIC CLOAK. 789 or locked the doors, which was doubtless thewisest thing they could have done. General Tollydob was asleep when the ca-lamity o
. St. Nicholas [serial] . AS FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, The soldiers of Tollydobs brave army hadnot even time to seize their weapons; for sucha foe, coming upon them through the air, hadnever been dreamed of. And the men of Nole, who might have re-sisted the enemy, were too much frightened todo more than tremble violently and gasp withopen mouths. As for the women and children,they fled screaming into the houses and bolted I9°5-] OR, THE STORY OF THE MAGIC CLOAK. 789 or locked the doors, which was doubtless thewisest thing they could have done. General Tollydob was asleep when the ca-lamity of this invasion occurred ; but hearing theshouts, he ran out of his mansion and met sev-eral of the Roly-Rogues face to face. Withouthesitation the brave general rushed upon them;but two of the creatures promptly rolled them-selves against him from opposite directions, sothat the ten-foot giant was crushed between. THEY FLED SCREAMING INTO THE HOUSES. them until there was not a particle of breathleft in his body. No sooner did these releasehim than two other Roly-Rogues rolled towardhim; but Tollydob was not to be caught twice,so he gave a mighty jump and jumped rightover their heads, with the result that the ballscrashed against each other. This made the two Roly-Rogues so angry thatthey began to fight each other savagely, and the general started to run away. But otherfoes rolled after him, knocked him down, andstuck their thorns into him until he yelled formercy and promised to become their slave. Tullydub, the chief counselor, watched allthis from his window, and it frightened him sogreatly that he crawled under his bed and hid,hoping the creatures would not find him. Buttheir big round eyes were sharp at discoveringthings; so the Roly-Rogues had not been inTullydubs room two minutes be-fore he was dragged from beneathhis bed, and prodded with thornsuntil he promised obedience tothe conqueror
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