More numerous than the tanners in Egypt were the potters, among whom the pottery-wheel was known from a remote antiquity, previous to the arrival of Joseph from Canaan, and long before the foundation of the Greek Athens.

"I yield me!" "Hold!" cried Little John, bursting from his cover, with the Tanner at his heels.

" At last Little John saw his chance, and, throwing all the strength he felt going from him into one blow that might have felled an ox, he struck at the Tanner with might and main.

How Little John Lived At The Sheriff's Little John And The Tanner Of Blyth Robin Hood And Will Scarlet

Tell 'im if 'e wants a tanner out

He was a tanner by trade; remarked by all who knew him as a man who "walked humbly with his God."

So for a long time they both of them went hunting about, Little John after the Tanner, and the Tanner after the deer.