William Morris

“ But Stephen reached out for the bow, and handled it and turned it about, and spake: This is a handy weapon, and they who made it were not without craft, and it pleases me to see it; for now when it brings home prey in the evening, the goodman will deem my maw the less burdensome to him. By my rede, goodman, ye will do well to make thy youngling the hunter to us all, for such bows as this may be shot in only by them that be fated thereto. And he nodded and smiled on Osberne, and the lad deemed that the new man would be friendly to him. ”

“ CHAPTER VIII. THE GOODMAN GETS A NEW HIRED MAN.
NOW when he came home to Wethermel he found tidings there, for the goodman had gotten a new hired man, and he showed him to Osberne, who greeted him well: he was a tall man, mild of aspect and speech, flaxen-haired and blue-eyed, and seemed a stark carle. ”

“ And the next day the lad let Stephen go alone to the hill, and he himself took a horse and went up the water a ten mile toward the mountain, and there he slew a hart of ten tines with one arrow, and brought the quarry home across the horse, to the joy of all the household, and the goodman was not rueing his bargain with Stephen the Eater. ”