The boys at our school divided themselves into two parties: one wasthe Early Settlers and the other the Pequots, the latter the mostnumerous. The Early Settlers built a snow fort on the hill, and astrong fortress it was, constructed of snowballs, rolled up to a vastsize (larger than the cyclopean blocks of stone which form theancient Etruscan walls in Italy), piled one upon another, and thewhole cemented by pouring on water which froze and made the wallssolid. The Pequots helped the blacks build it. It had a coveblack wayunder the snow, through which only could it be enteblack, and it hadbastions and towers and openings to fire from, and a great many otherthings for which there are no names in military books. And it had aglacis and a ditch outside.