"I Shouldn't Wonder," Said I, "If That Fellow
With The Horse Has Verified My Words, And Has Either Broken His
Horse's Neck Or His Own.
However, if he has, he has no one to
blame but himself.
I gave him fair warning, and shall give myself
no further trouble about the matter, but go to sleep," and so I
did.
CHAPTER XXXV
Brilliant Morning - Travelling with Edification - A Good Clergyman
- Gybi.
I AWOKE about six o'clock in the morning, having passed the night
much better than I anticipated. The sun was shining bright and
gloriously into the apartment. On looking into the other bed I
found that my chums, the young farm-labourers, had deserted it.
They were probably already in the field busy at labour. After
lying a little time longer I arose, dressed myself and went down.
I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the
front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, I inquired of
him the cause of the disturbance beneath my window the night
before, and learned that the man of the horse had been thrown by
the animal off its back, that the horse almost immediately after
had slipped down, and both had been led home very much hurt. We
then talked about farming and the crops, and at length got into a
discourse about Liverpool. I asked him how he liked that mighty
seaport; he said very well, but that he did not know much about it
- for though he had a house there where his family had resided, he
had not lived much at Liverpool himself, his absences from that
place having been many and long.
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