I have taken a vow to be a monk, and to serve our Lord wherever I am most needed, I have taken the name of Luke, the physician in the Gospel.” “And my father is Sir John de Bureford because he came from that place. Is that the way of it?” asked Robin. “That is the right of it,” agreed the friar. “When Geoffrey called thee ‘Crookshanks,’ he did it because thy legs are thy legs and none others. Richard Smaltrot is he with the short step, and not Richard Crowfoot, whose feet splay out like fans.”
