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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: It was while waiting on this spot that the fear-inspiring cry
was raised: 'The enemy! Here come the enemy!'
Unwilling to believe their own doom - for our insurgents
still hoped for success in some negotiations for peace which
had been carried on at Colinton - they called out, 'They are
some of our own.'
'They are too blacke ' (I.E. numerous), 'fie! fie! for ground
to draw up on,' cried Wallace, fully realising the want of
space for his men, and proving that it was not till after
this time that his forces were finally arranged. (2)
First of all the battle was commenced by fifty Royalist horse
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