sith that it was fair. So he mounted on one of his father's horses of may be? 'Fair son,' saith his mother, 'Of right ought you well to know that the Red Knight was conquering the White. He launched one of his made? And the father answered that they were such as had more valour the chase and carried his javelins Welshman-fashion and went into the "Sir," saith the damsel to the King, "When that the father had thus made answer that this was nor that he had asked, but how knights were morrow morning came, the lad arose and heard the birds sing and by your lineage.' She telleth the lad that he had eleven uncles on his father's side that had all been slain in arms, and not one of them XI. clad in habergeons of iron to protect their bodies, and helms laced made it pass through the heart. The knight fell dead. than any other in the world. After that he said, 'Fair son, they are javelins at the Red Knight so hard that he pierced his habergeon and until that he came into a launde and found two knights all armed that thereof, and the lad asked him, 'were knights so easy to slay? to defend their bodies.'" upon their heads, and shields and spears and swords girded wherewithal bethought him that he would go for disport into the forest for the day white. He left of tracking the stag to look on at the melly and saw were there doing battle, and the one had a red shield and the other a spoken to the lad, they returned together to the castle. When the "Sir," saith the damsel, "The knight of the white shield made great joy forest and found a stag and followed him a good four leagues Welsh, lived knight but twelve years. Sir," saith she to the King, "The lad Methought,' saith the lad, 'that none might never pierce nor damage a