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"Art on your way to Jamestown?" I demanded "Come ride with us Diccon, saddle his reverence's horse"

"Saddle him an thou wilt, friend," said Master Sparrow, "for he and I have idled long enough, but I fear I cannot keep pace with this fair coether"

"He is not long for this world," I re his ill-favored steed, "but neither are we far from Jamestown He'll last that far"

Master Sparrow shook his head, with a rueful countenance "I bought hinerons below Westover," he said "The felloas astride the poor creature, beating hio I laid Monsieur Crapaud in the dust, after which we compounded, he for my purse, I for the aniether, for I could not in conscience ride him Have you read me Aesop's fables, Captain Percy?"

"I remember the rief in the end Put thy scruples in thy pocket, man, and mount thy pale horse"

"Not I!" he said, with a smile "'T is a thousand pities, Captain Percy, that a small, mean, and squeamish spirit like mine should be cased like a very Guy of Warwick Now, if I were slight of body, or even if I were no heavier than your servant there"-"Oh!" I said "Diccon, give his reverence thehim slowly on to town If he will not carry you, you can lead him in"

Sunshine revisited the countenance of Master Jereathered up the reins, and made the mare to caracole across the path for very joy

"Have a care of the poor brute, friend!" he cried genially to Diccon, whose looks were of the sulkiest "Bring hiently on, and leave him at Master Bucke's, near to the church"

"What do you do at Jalooone to Henricus, to help Master Thorpe convert the Indians"

"Ay," he answered, "I did go I had a call,--I was sure I had a call I thought of myself as a very apostle to the Gentiles I went from Henricus one day's journey into the wilderness, with none but an Indian lad for interpreter, and coathered its inhabitants aboutdown upon a hillock read and expounded to them the Sermon on the Mount I was much edified by the solemnity of their demeanor and the earnestness of their attention, and had conceived great hopes for their spiritual welfare, when, the reading and exhortation being finished, one of their oldspeech, which I could not well understand, but took to be one of grateful welcoood will He then desired me to tarry with them, and to be present at some entertainment or other, the nature of which I could notthey conducted me with e There I found planted in the ground a thick stake, and around it a ring of fla brushwood To the stake was fastened an Indian warrior, captured, so my interpreter informed me, from some hostile tribe above the falls His ars passed through incisions in the flesh; his body was stuck over with countless pine splinters, each burning like a miniature torch; and on his shaven croas tied a thin plate of copper heaped with red-hot coals A little to one side appeared another stake and another circle of brushwood: the one with nothing tied to it as yet, and the other still unlit My friend, I did not tarry to see it lit I tore a branch from an oak, and I became as Samson with the jaw bone of the ass I fell upon and smote those Philistines Their wretched victied hiht when they planted that second stake and laid the brush for their hell fire At last I dropped into the streaot safely away Next day I went to George Thorpe and resignedhim that ere nowhere commanded to preach to devils; when the Coht count upon me After which I came down the river to Jah despaired of with the fever Finally he was taken up river for change of air, and, for lack of worthier substitute, the Governor and Captain West constrained me to remain and ood sir?"