"
I making no answer, he went on and said: "Well, well! but if you
have no money, you have a good horse under you, and we can distrain
him for the charge."--"But," said I, "the horse is not mine."--"No,"
said he; "but you have a good coat on your back, and that I hope is
your own."--"No," said I, "but it is not, for I borrowed both the
horse and the coat."
With that the warden, holding up his hands and smiling, said:
"Bless me! I never met with such a man as you are before. What!
were you set out by the parish?" Then turning to the constable, he
said: "Have him to the Greyhound, and bid the people be civil to
him." Accordingly, to the Greyhound I was led, my horse set up, and
I put into a large room, and some account, I suppose, given of me to
the people of the house.
This was new work to me, and what the issue of it would be I could
not foresee; but being left there alone, I sat down, and retired in
spirit to the Lord, in whom alone my strength and safety were, and
begged support of Him; even that He would be pleased to give me
wisdom and words to answer the warden when I should come to be
examined again before him.
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