straw-houses

Updated: July 12, 2025

At dead of night or at noonday they came on us six times in all: and for two months the crew of the Unity couldn't call their souls their own, but lived from day to day in secret closets and wandered the country by night, hiding in hedges and straw-houses. All that time the revenue men watched the Hauen, night and day, like dogs before a rat-hole.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales