First, there be all the apples stolen--then there be all the hives turned topsy-turvy in the garden--then there be Caesar with his flank opened by the bull--then there be the bull broken through the hedge and tumbled into the saw-pit--and now I come to get more help to drag him out, I find one woman dead like, and John looks as if he had seen the devil." "Aw-yaw-aw!" replied John, nodding his head very significantly.
"One would think that the devil had broke loose to-day.

What is it, John?
Have you seen him, and has Susan seen him ?" "Aw-yaw." "He's stopped your jaw, then, at all events, and I thought the devil himself wouldn't have done that-we shall get nothing of you.

Is that wench coming to her senses ?" "Yes, yes, she's better now,--Susan, what's the matter ?" "Oh, oh, ma'am! the well, the well--" "The well! Something wrong there, I suppose: well, I will go and see." The farmer trotted off to the well; he perceived the bucket was at the bottom and all the rope out; he looked about him, and then he looked into the well.

Jack, who had become very impatient, had been looking up some time for the assistance which he expected would have come sooner; the round face of the farmer occasioned a partial eclipse of the round disk which bounded his view, just as one of the satellites of Jupiter sometimes obscures the face of the planet round which he revolves.
"Here I am," cried Jack; "get me up quick, or I shall be dead"; and what Jack said was true, for he was quite done up by having been so long down, although his courage had not failed him.
"Dang it, but there be somebody fallen into the well," cried the farmer; "no end to mishaps this day.

Well, we must get a Christian out of a well afore we get a bull out of a saw-pit, so I'll go and call the men." In a very short time the men who were assembled round the saw-pit were brought to the well.
"Down below there, hold on now." "Never fear," cried Jack.
Away went the winch, and once more Jack had an extended horizon to survey.