If about to investigate the antiquities of Stamford or Peterborough, the traveller will do well to stop at Wansford for the sake of one of the best inns in Europe, well known under the sign of "The Haycock at Wansford in England.
Yes; Gianetto was concealed in your haycock there, but my little cousin showed me his trick.
Fortunato raised his left hand at the same time, and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder to the haycock against which he was leaning.
Do you think this tiny haycockwill be enough for a whole parish?
You have already divided this miserable haycockamong yourselves, divided it down to the very last straw.
The dome turned out to be one of the small haycock formations that we had seen before in this district.
The material provided by the haycock was of the best quality, and well adapted for cooking purposes.
But they are very particular that every haycock shall be tied with a band.
He had hardly spoken when the white mare darted off like the wind, and the haycock was safely housed in a few moments.
This continued till midnight; but when a cock crew in the village, the haycock vanished, and the girl made her way home exhausted, and died within a week.
Presently she was pestered by a moving haycock without a band, which pressed upon her so closely that the hay pricked her face.
So he took some strong ropes with him, led out the white mare, and rode on her back to the haycock, but found that the so-called haycock contained at least fifty loads.
Almost before she knew what she had done, she had taken the road to Haycock Abbey, which was Windebank's Wiltshire home.
She mislaid the rakes, nearly killed herself and several other persons with a fork, and overturned one haycockafter another as fast as they were made.
They were carried along till it stuck on some young alder trees, when each of them grasped a bough, and the haycock sailed away, leaving them among the weak and brittle branches.
We understood now that the haycock formations were the result of pressure, and that crevasses were always found in their neighbourhood.
Squire Haycock holds the gate open for me to pass, Cousin John goes by me like a flash of lightning; White Stockings with a loose rein, submits to be kicked along at any pace I like to ask him.
Before the soup was off the table Squire Haycock and I had become wonderfully good friends.
Mr. Haycock has just been here, and proposed for me!
Mr. Haycock has proposed to you; you have accepted him.
Then Uncle John lifted little John out of the cart, and Uncle Solomon and Uncle John both stuck their pitchforks into the haycock and lifted it right up and pitched it over the side of the cart, so that it fell into the cart.
Then they went along to the next haycock and pitched that in the same way, and little John raked after, raking up the hay that had dropped from the pitchforks.
But still there stretched ahead of us, and perhaps one hundred feet above us, another small ridge with a north and south pair of little haycock summits.
The eldest took his turn first, but after having watched all night fell asleep towards morning, when he awoke to find another haycock missing.
Then a white mare, with twelve colts as white as herself, trotted up to thehaycock and began to eat it.
They were loading a haycock onto the cart not far from him.
When the last of the hay had been divided, Levin, intrusting the superintendence of the rest to the counting-house clerk, sat down on a haycock marked off by a stake of willow, and looked admiringly at the meadow swarming with peasants.
Chapter 24 The night spent by Levin on the haycock did not pass without result for him.
In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.
I came on at once and will take a lounge here if you don't mind," answered Mac, unstrapping his knapsack and taking a haycock as if it were a chair.
For the moment the last angry Bumblebee had disappeared inside it Johnnie Green stole quickly up from behind a haycock and slipped the cork into the mouth of the jug.
Yet another workman and a bold did accept the conditions; if the pope’s daughter pissed o’er the haycock which he had mown, no claim for his work would he make.
If his daughter pissed o’er the haycock which the workman had mown, the man went wageless.
And he went to tell the king the haycockwas ready.
And when the king, accompanied by his daughter, approached the tiny haycock which had been erected by the young man, he cried out that the trial was not serious, and he counselled the peasant to construct a much loftier haycock.
He is not gamy,--fighting's not his forte, A Haycock fight is just no sort of sport.
The little haycock houses of musk-rats offer the trapper easy prey when frost freezes the sloughs, shutting off retreat below, and heavy snow-fall has not yet hidden the little creatures' winter home.
But the tracks betrayed which way musquash was travelling; so the trapper goes on, knowing if he does not find the little haycock houses on this side, he can cross to the other.
Then I made a great effort, pulled at my trigger, and rolled backwards from my haycock into the spongy swamp, inches deep with water just there.
My own score at the Haycockwas as follows,--by way of illustration, and because actual figures are worth more than estimates.
Mr. Haycock continues: "So far as my own experience is concerned, it is at variance with almost every one of my observations.
