Winning His Spurs
Henty, G. A. / Henty, George Alfred / 1stworld Library![Winning His Spurs](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/147/14745726/CHSBZCOP0314745726.jpg)
It was a bright morning in the month of August, when a lad of some fifteen years of age, sitting on a low wall, watched party after party of armed men riding up to the castle of the Earl of Evesham. A casual observer glancing at his curling hair and bright open face, as also at the fashion of his dress, would at once have assigned to him a purely Saxon origin, but a keener eye would have detected signs that Norman blood ran also in his veins, ...