I think I could manage, somehow, to make a shift with all them dratted things--leastways if you was to give me a 'and up with them at the start.' 'And I would see you far enough before I allowed you to try, Mr.Rowley!' I cried.

'Why, you would be quite defenceless! A footpad that was an infant child could rob you.

And I should probably come driving by to find you in a ditch with your throat cut.

But there is something in your idea, for all that; and I propose we put it in execution no farther forward than the next corner of a lane.' Accordingly, instead of continuing to aim for Aylesbury, we headed by cross-roads for some point to the northward of it, whither I might assist Rowley with the baggage, and where I might leave him to await my return in the post-chaise.
It was snowing to purpose, the country all white, and ourselves walking snowdrifts, when the first glimmer of the morning showed us an inn upon the highwayside.

Some distance off, under the shelter of a corner of the road and a clump of trees, I loaded Rowley with the whole of our possessions, and watched him till he staggered in safety into the doors of the _Green Dragon_, which was the sign of the house.