Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.

Stewed nettles; savoury messes of chickweed sprinkled with nutmeg; he cooks the foliage of shepherd's purse as if it were cabbage.

The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]

Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?