hay-barn

Updated: April 30, 2025

Drink fair, gossip;" and, taking Dick's arm to steady his uneven steps, he walked to the door of the alehouse. As soon as he was over the threshold, ten strong arms had seized and bound him; and in two minutes more, with his limbs trussed one to another, and a good gag in his mouth, he had been tumbled neck and crop into a neighbouring hay-barn.

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Black Arrow