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I had felt little compunction about leaving Sapphire; apparently all was well until noon, when I would ride home to see how she was. We found the rival armies marshalled in irregular ranks, already confronting each other. ‘A very fine body of men,’ I found myself saying to Starfish, professionally, ‘and under a good sergeant-major they should make an even better show. Don’t you go in for drill here?’ But that was another of my stupid questions. Village warfare, it turned out, had more in common ...with the Old English game of Shrove-tide football than with war as I knew it. The fighting men, whose ages ranged from sixteen to sixty, were all well greased and naked except for leather breeches, gauntlets, mocassins and round leather helmets, and armed only with a light quarter-staff padded at one end. Rabnon, who outnumbered Zapmor by about three to two, were stained all over with a crimson and white crisscross; Zapmor were patched irregularly with red ochre and had blackened their faces with burnt cork.
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