And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man's child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the
byre.
Sheep-folds, stables,
byres, dairies, and barns were rebuilt after the pattern of the roomy, well-ventilated, and consequently healthy steadings that M.
They had no time to patch and plaster the rear walls of the empty
byres that backed on to the Jungle; the wild pig trampled them down, and the knotty-rooted vines hurried after and threw their elbows over the new-won ground, and the coarse grass bristled behind the vines like the lances of a goblin army following a retreat.
He led them on and on, through a maze of back kitchens, dairies, larders, and sculleries, that melted along covered ways into a farm-house, visibly older than the main building, which again rambled out among barns,
byres, pig-pens, stalls and stables to the dead fields behind.
The
Byre Theatre in St Andrews has gone into liquidation and will close its doors on Thursday.
AFARM
byre which is now a magnet for buyers landed an award for its successful trading last night.