What say ye, lads ?" "In sooth, good master," quoth Little John, "thy bidding and my doing ever fit together like cakes and ale.

Let us in, I say also." Then up spake Will Scarlet: "I am ever ready to do what thou sayest, uncle, yet I could wish that we were farther upon our way ere we rest for the night.

Nevertheless, if thou thinkest best, let us in for the night, say I also." So in they went and called for the best that the place afforded.

Then a right good feast was set before them, with two stout bottles of old sack to wash it down withal.

These things were served by as plump and buxom a lass as you could find in all the land, so that Little John, who always had an eye for a fair lass, even when meat and drink were by, stuck his arms akimbo and fixed his eyes upon her, winking sweetly whenever he saw her looking toward him.