Sand has been trapped using a series of wind breaks in the form of chestnut palings.
They soon reached a small hut, near which, enclosed within some high palings, was the animal in question.
Pierre too drew near the church where the thing was that evoked these exclamations, and dimly made out something leaning against the palings surrounding the church.
From the words of his comrades who saw better than he did, he found that this was the body of a man, set upright against the palings with its face smeared with soot.