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Updated: May 10, 2025
"I feel just like I was burglarizing a house," chuckled Gallegher, as he dropped noiselessly to the floor below and refastened the shutter. The barn was a large one, with a row of stalls on either side in which horses and cows were dozing. There was a haymow over each row of stalls, and at one end of the barn a number of fence- rails had been thrown across from one mow to the other.
The salle d'honneur was cut up into little rooms, the room of the seigneur became a haymow, and the cellars of the towers were used to store potatoes in. About twenty little chimneys rose over the old, dilapidated battlements. A haymow in this castle was the most picturesque thing I ever saw in a cantonment.
I read a story once, about a boy who ran away, and he had to sleep in a haymow and eat raw eggs for breakfast." "Oh! I'd never do that!" cried Sue. "I wouldn't mind playing with the little chickens that came out of the eggs, but I wouldn't run away," she said earnestly. "I wouldn't want to sleep in a haystack lessen Bunny was with me."
"No" answered Mike, looking at the stick, in a doubting manner "I'll not t'row it away, wid yer honour's l'ave, 'till I've told ye how we got into the brook, forenent the forest, and waded up to the woods, where we was all the same as if we had been two bits of clover tops hid in a haymow. That Nick is a cr'ature at consailment!"
Before he had stepped from the haymow, however, there was a rush of feet from without, and four frightened girls dashed into the barn, followed by a tall, young man in clerical garb; and the shabby figure slunk back into his hiding place without making his presence known. "What's the matter?" "How did it happen?" "Is she dead?" "Run for the doctor!" cried the excited voices.
If it had been quicker to act, she would have asked that young lady to come some day and go up in the haymow with her. It would be a positive charity to give a girl with longings, such as she saw that one had, a chance of knowing what real country life was. It would be pleasant to show things to a girl who really wanted to know about them. From this she began to think of Dora Bannister.
He was considerable of a goat, this one was, with horns on him a foot long an' a fright of a temper. He was one o' these fellers what is always out o' humor, only sometimes farther out than common. Still, me with my rope, an' Ches with his football habits, was one too many for Mr. Goat; an' we soon had him up in the haymow.
"I wonder what dad and marm thought when they found us gone?" said Abner, with a grin. "Won't they feel bad?" "Not much," said Abner. "They ain't that kind. I reckon it won't spoil their appetite." When they descended from the haymow, the farmer was milking his cows. "Well, youngsters," he said, "so you're up and dressed?" "Yes, sir." "And ready for breakfast, I'll be bound."
Bidding her companions wait outside, Grace went in and consulted with the mountaineer's wife. "Yes, you folks will have to sleep in the barn," Grace informed them. "I never thought I should have to sleep with the pigs and the cows," declared Nora. "Bad luck to the man that spoiled our fun." There was an old haymow overhead in the barn, and there the girls decided to make their bed for the night.
We persevered in our intention of going into her probable retreat, and were cautiously looking for some sign of life in the haymow, when we heard a soft cackle and a ruffling of plumage.
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