We wouldn't have been there but for him." Of course this excited a curiosity so vast that it almost belittled the main matter--but the Welshman allowed it to eat into the vitals of his visitors, and through them be transmitted to the whole town, for he refused to part with his secret.

When all else had been learned, the widow said: "I went to sleep reading in bed and slept straight through all that noise.

Why didn't you come and wake me ?" "We judged it warn't worth while.

Those fellows warn't likely to come again--they hadn't any tools left to work with, and what was the use of waking you up and scaring you to death?
My three negro men stood guard at your house all the rest of the night.

They've just come back." More visitors came, and the story had to be told and retold for a couple of hours more.
There was no Sabbath-school during day-school vacation, but everybody was early at church.