You’re an outlaw, lad!

[Hewing vigorously.

A bark-thatched hovel

Is shelter enough both in rain and frost.

[Looks up at the tree.

Now he stands wavering. There; only a kick,

And he topples and measures his length on the ground;—

The thick-swarming undergrowth shudders around him!

[Begins lopping the branches from the trunk; suddenly he listens, and stands motionless with his axe in the air.

There’s some one after me;—Ay, are you that sort,