Archers, be on your guard! Watch without rest, without sound,

and then, after a few adroit questions on points of detail, he would call out “On guard! on guard,” or, if it were the victim himself who had already arrived, and had been obliged, unconsciously, by my grandfather’s subtle examination, to admit his origin, then my grandfather, to show us that he had no longer any doubts, would merely look at us, humming almost inaudibly the air of

What! do you hither guide the feet

Of this timid Israelite?

What! do you hither guide the feet Of this timid Israelite?

or of