And what they kill’d each other for.”

“It was the English,” Casper cried,

“That put the French to rout;

But what they kill’d each other for,

I could not well make out;

But everybody said,” quoth he,

“That ’twas a famous victory.

“My father lived at Blenheim then,

Yon little stream hard by;

They burnt his dwelling to the ground,