He explained his case: 'Just look at my frill! Now, upon my honour, you know, I'm good-tempered; I pass their bucolic habits, but this is beyond bearing.
I was near the palings there, and a fellow calls out, "Hi! will you help the lady over ?" Holloa! thinks I, an adventure! However, I advised him to take her round to the gates.

The beast burst out laughing.

"Now, then," says he, and I heard a scrambling at the pales, and up came the head of a dog.

"Oh! the dog first," says I."Catch by the ears," says he.

I did so.