Each of the tenants keeps two or three at our service.

We have only the Bairds' own horses kept in the hold.

It would be too much trouble to gather forage for those of the twenty men who always live here, and indeed, we have no room for such number.
"Mind that you drink not too much, over in the village there; for though the Bairds care not, on feast days, if the whole garrison gets drunk, so that there are enough sober to keep watch and ward, they set their faces against it at other times, seeing that it leads to broils and quarrels." "I will take care.

I like my cup, occasionally; and can drink with others, without my head getting addled, but as a rule I care not overmuch for it." After being roughly introduced to several of the retainers as a new comrade, Oswald was left to follow his own devices.

Presently, Roger came out into the courtyard.
"So you have got service, comrade," he said, in a voice that could be heard by any of those standing near.