You were wondering what could be found for these vagrants.

They have many of them long since lost the habits of honest labor.

Many of them are still serfs, although most have been freed by the good earl and the knights his followers.

Some of those who would fain leave the life in the woods still cling to it because they think that it would be mean to desert their comrades, who being serfs are still bound to lurk there; but methinks that this is a great opportunity for them.

They are valiant men, and the fact that they are fond of drawing an arrow at a buck does not make them one whit the worse Christians.