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lusty, weather-beaten fellows, hard of hand, bold of eye; and though they
wore plain tabards, like country ploughmen, even a drunken soldier might
have looked twice before he sought a quarrel in such company.
A little apart before the huge fire sat a younger man, almost a boy,
dressed in much the same fashion, though it was easy to see by his looks
that he was better born, and might have worn a sword, had the time
suited.
"Nay," said one of the men at the table, "I like it not. Ill will come
of it. This is no place for jolly fellows. A jolly fellow loveth open
country, good cover, and scarce foes; but here we are shut in a town,
girt about with enemies; and, for the bull's-eye of misfortune, see if it
snow not ere the morning."
"
'Tis for Master Shelton there," said another, nodding his head towards
the lad before the fire.
"I will do much for Master Shelton," returned the first; "but to come to
the gallows for any man--nay, brothers, not that!"
The door of the inn opened, and another man entered hastily and
approached the youth before the fire.
"
Master Shelton," he said, "Sir Daniel goeth forth with a pair of links
and four archers."
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