Crossword-Solution: BALLAN 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This road, which joins that of Chinon beyond Ballan, skirts an undulating plain to the little hamlet of Artanne.

The sheep paired off with the shepherd, the mule jogged along after the fashion of mules, while the girl slipped now this way now that, riding so uncomfortably that the priest pointed out to her, after leaving Ballan, that she had better hold on to him; and immediately my lady put her plump arms around the waist of her cavalier, in a modest and timorous manner.

Since leaving Ballan the road had dipped up and down a succession of swelling rises, grass-grown and untimbered.

His story is that while at Ballan, a township about twenty miles this side of Ballarat, on the Melbourne road, a man attacked him with an iron poker.

One day, when the masons were taking down an ugly plaster ceiling from a small room in the tower, there underneath they [Illustration: THE COMMANDERIE AT BALLAN] found, still solid, still fresh and clear, the ancient beams and roof-trees of a distant century, painted with the coat-of-arms of the Knights of Malta.