His struggles were so violent, that, being a man of tremendous strength, it was some time before they could master him, and it required the combined efforts of all the four partners to put him into irons.

It appeared from what he said that he had been captured when asleep,--that his liquor had been drugged,--otherwise, he would never have allowed himself to be taken alive.

Wild, he asserted, had robbed him of a large sum of money, and till it was restored he would never plead.
"We'll see that," replied Jonathan.

"Take him to the bilbowes.

Put him in the stocks, and there let him sleep off his drunken fit.