Show Tiie plireraan NNUS cOT rca lensivo armor an iron headpiece iron Jcack cri breast ci d iasses a kino of iron apron protecting him from waist to knee He carried a pike 16 feet long with an ashen shaft an iron head and a blunt iron spike at tM butt end whereby where-by to fix it in the ground and besides the pike a rapier The pike from its great length was a weapon which required deft handling in order to be of effective use and as may bo imagined was excessivelyshowy on parade The modern lance exercise is a pretty sight enough but the old pike exorcise perfectly executed by a large body of men must have been superb su-perb We are not surprised therefore to find that the postures or instructions for this exercise are extravagantly minute To give one example at the close of the instruction on the word Order your pikes we find after a mass of complicated details the following conclusion i con-clusion You place the butt end of your pike by the outside of your right foot your right hand holding it oven with your eye and your thumb right up then your left arm being set akimbo by your side you shall stand with full body in a comely posture M > cmil lans Magazine |