Where horses, cows, sheep, men, women, and children had lain dead all over the trampled fields, the tall English grass now waved, yellowing to fragrant hay; horses, barns, sheds — nay, even fences, wagons, ploughs, and haycocks had been laid in cinders. There remained not one thing that could burn which had not been burned. Only breeze-stirred ashes marked these silent places, with here and there a bit of iron from wagon or plough, rusting in the dew, or a steel button from some dead man’s coat, or a bone gone chalky white — dumb witnesses that the wrath of England had passed wrapped in the lightning of Divine Right.

But Great Britain’s flaming glory had swept still farther westward, for German Flatts was gone except for its church and one house, which were too near the forts for the destructives