Going outside, they gathered dead and fallen wood, broke it into right lengths, and, carrying it within, heaped it in the corner.

With a bough of pine they swept the floor, then, leaving the treasure hold, dropped the curtain of brier in place.

They were not so old but that there was yet the young boy in them; he hugged himself over this cave of Robin Hood and swart magician.

But now they left it and went on whistling through the glen: Gie ye give ane, then I'll give twa, For sae the store increases! The sides of the glen fell back, grew lower.

The leap of the water was not so marked; there were long pools of quiet.