But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].

Dovener is slight, brown-mustached and Prince Albert-coated, and goes at a matter like a terrier at a rat.

He humbles with a ferula the tall ones

If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.