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"No!"

"And wherefore not?"

"Because," says I, cutting er the landlord stared, his buxorew silent awhile, viewing me with his shrewd, merry eyes

"Aha!" says he at last, "'Twas you, was it?"

"It was!"

"And why ory swears to it"

"Gregory's a liar!"

"Which is true enough--so he be!" nodded the landlord

"And a cruel-hardmaster, they do ha' used ye ill--your poor face, all bruised and swole it be!"

"Which it be!" nodded Roger "Likewise cut! Which be ill for 'ee though--like Godby here--I won't say but what Inat'ral-like to heave things at such times, d'ye see?"

"Very natural!" says I

"And then why," questioned the little peddler, "why break open the wicket-gate?"