KUMASAKA.
And the brothers Surihari?
BRIGAND.
Stood foster-fathers[57] to the fire-throwers and were the first to enter.
But soon there meets them this child I tell of and with a blow at each whisks off their heads from their necks.
KUMASAKA.
Ei! Ei! Those two, and the horsemen that were near a hundred strong,—all smitten! The fellow has bewitched them!
BRIGAND.
When Takase saw this, thinking perhaps no good would come of this night-attack, he took some seventy horsemen and galloped away with them.
KUMASAKA.