Chapter Nine

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Mr. Pan, the village shepherd, brought his flock of black faced Shropshire sheep in from the hills so that they could eat the stubble left over from the harvest.

Farmer Underwood, Leo's neighbor, plowed his fields for the next year's wheat and winter barley crops

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Farmer Underwood, Leo's neighbor, plowed his fields for the next year's wheat and winter barley crops. He was a gangly young man with a scraggly little beard and messy brown curls peaking out from under his floppy farmer's hat. The two English longhorn oxen who pulled his plow were called Arthur and Lancelot and Leo often heard him shout directions to them as he dug furrows into the earth.

The Underwood farm was next door to the Leo's forge

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The Underwood farm was next door to the Leo's forge. Their house was a good sized building with a stone ground story, a timber framed lower story, a thatched roof, and brick chimneys. Mrs. Underwood's garden was enclosed by a rough stone wall. Both the house and the wall were overgrown with ivy.

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