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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Oh, no doubt, no doubt," said Hal Saddler, mockingly "We shall have but bread and milk, and thou shalt have a most glorious threshing from thy father when thou comest home again!" That was the last straw to Nick's unhappy heart. "'Tis a threshing either way," said he, squaring his shoulders doggedly. "Father will thresh me if I run away, and Master Brunswood will thresh me if I don't.
And he has had his breakfast served in Master Geoffrey Inchbold's own room at the Swan, and swears that he will walk the whole way to Coventry sooner than straddle the horse that the burgesses have sent him to ride." "What! Is he at the inn? Why, let's go down and see him." "Master Brunswood says that he will birch whoever cometh late," objected Hal Saddler. "Birch?" groaned Nick.
His mother grew uneasy; but his father only growled: "We'll reckon up when he cometh home. Master Brunswood tells me he was na at the school the whole day yesterday and he be feared to show his face. I'll fear him with a bit of birch!" "Do na be too hard with the lad, Simon," pleaded Mistress Attwood. "Who knows what hath happened to him?
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