noon
The streets were barricaded with wagons , and the road toward Borev was laid under water by damming the brook , to prevent a surprise from that direction . Aaron , with forty other men , clambered up the steep slope of the Szekler Stone to repulse the enemy from this commanding height , -- forty men against as many hundred . They would have laughed at their own folly had they but stopped to think . Toward noon the sturdy little band of defenders was increased by the coming of fugitives from St. George . For these , too , there were arms enough in Toroczko . The effective force now in the village amounted to nearly four hundred . Manasseh was at home with the women of the family .