Do you wish to know what this has to do with the fire?
Much; for otherwise I should scarcely have been wounded.

The lightning had struck only the convent barn; the cow stable, when we arrived, was still safe, but the flames soon reached it also.

Neither the nuns nor the men had thought of driving the cattle out.

Poor city cattle! In the country the animals have more friendly care.

When the work of rescue was at last commenced the cows naturally refused to leave their old home.