"June the twelfth, then?"
"So long?"
"Plenty to do 'twixt now and then."
"Hush!"
"And I tell thee what to do with a sheep that dies."
"The whole country is to rise. There will not remain one man at the plough—as I was saying, soak the flesh well in water and keep it there from daybreak till nones, and—"
"Wot ye, whether the men of Hertforshire are with us?"
"And keep it and drain it thoroughly and salt it and dry it, and it will do for your laborers."
"Ha, ha, ha!"