If it must be moved hence, I shall carry it with all due reverence.

'So saying, I picked the body up in my arms, and bearing it to a wayside clump of yellow gorse bushes, I laid it solemnly down and drew the branches over it to conceal it.
'You have the thews of an ox and the heart of a woman, 'muttered my companion.

'By the Mass, that old white-headed psalm-singer was right; for if my memory serves me, he said words to that effect.

A few handfuls of dust will hide the stains.

Now we may jog upon our way without any fear of being called upon to answer for another man's sins.