“We will do this,” said they.
Soon the hunters, followed by the dogs, appeared, pulling after them the dead stag with ropes.
Then all sate down round about the fire. There were full sixty, men, women, and children. Bread was pulled out from satchels, knives from their sheaths; the stag, cut up, stripped, disembowelled, was put on the spit with small game. And at the end of the meal Lamme was seen snoring with his head drooped on his breast and sleeping propped against a tree.
At nightfall, the Brothers of the Wood went back into huts constructed underground to sleep, and Lamme and Ulenspiegel did the same.
Armed men kept watch, guarding the camp. And Ulenspiegel heard the dry leaves protest under their feet.
The next day he departed with Lamme, while the men of the camp said:
“Blessed be thou; we will make towards the sea.”
XXXV
At Harlebek, Lamme renewed his stock of olie-koekjes, ate twenty-seven and put thirty in his basket. Ulenspiegel carried his cages in his hand. Towards evening they arrived in Courtray and stopped at the inn of in de Bie, the Bee, with Gilis van den Ende, who came to his door as soon as he heard someone sing like the lark.