"Chopping it down," said the ploughman.
"But why?" cried they.
"I must plough this field," said he.
So the beggars grabbed their spoils and scuttled away to other countries, and I went on over the hill.
STRONGHOLD
It rose upon the rock like a growth of nature; secure, commanding, imperturbable; mantled with ivy and crowned with towers; a castle of the olden time, called Stronghold.