When Prophets are naughty and young and vain , They make a won ` erful grievance of it ; -LRB- You can see by their writings how they complain -RRB- , But Oh , 't is won ` erful good for the Prophet ! There 's nothing Nineveh Town can give -LRB- Nor being swallowed by whales between -RRB- , Makes up for the place where a man 's folk live , That do n't care nothing what he has been . He might ha ' been that , or he might ha ' been this , But they love and they hate him for what he is . A rainy afternoon drove Dan and Una over to play pirates in the Little Mill . If you do n't mind rats on the rafters and oats in your shoes , the mill-attic , with its trap-doors and inscriptions on beams about floods and sweethearts , is a splendid place . It is lighted by a foot-square window , called Duck Window , that looks across to Little Lindens Farm , and the spot where Jack Cade was killed . When they had climbed the attic ladder -LRB- they called it ` the mainmast tree ' , out of the ballad of Sir Andrew Barton , and Dan ` swarved it with might and main ' , as the ballad says -RRB- they saw a man sitting on Duck Window-sill . He was dressed in a plum-coloured doublet and tight plum-coloured hose , and he drew busily in a red-edged book . ` Sit ye ! Sit ye ! ' Puck cried from a rafter overhead . ` See what it is to be beautiful ! Sir Harry Dawe -- pardon , Hal -- says I am the very image of a head for a gargoyle . ' The man laughed and raised his dark velvet cap to the children , and his grizzled hair bristled out in a stormy fringe . He was old -- forty at least -- but his eyes were young , with funny little wrinkles all round them . A satchel of embroidered leather hung from his broad belt , which looked interesting . ` May we see ? ' said Una , coming forward . ` Surely -- sure-ly ! ' he said , moving up on the window-seat , and returned to his work with a silver-pointed pencil .
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