I stopped and said: 'Good morning, sir! Do you wish to speak with me ?' He called angrily: 'Get out of my way, you clod!' 'Sorry sir, but I can't,' I said.

'The law gives me this road when I am heavily loaded, and you are on foot or horseback.'" "What did he do ?" asked the Princess.
And from the way she looked I just knew she guessed the man was the same one I thought of.
"He raised his whip to strike my horse," said Laddie.
"Ah, surely!" said the Princess.

"Always an arm raised to strike.

And you, Man?
What did you do ?" she cried eagerly.
"I stood on my load, suddenly," said Laddie, "and I called: 'Hold one minute!'" "And he ?" breathed the Princess.
"Something made him pause with his arm still raised.

I said to him: 'You must not strike my horse.