For the horse went about forty feet at every step, and trotted so high that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent; our journey was somewhat farther than from London to St.Alban's.

My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting a while with the innkeeper and making some necessary preparations, he hired the _grultrud_, or crier, to give notice through the town, of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a _splacnuck_ (an animal in that country, very finely shaped, about six feet long), and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.
I was placed upon a table in the largest room of the inn, which might be near three hundred feet square.

My little nurse stood on a low stool close to the table, to take care of me, and direct what I should do.

My master, to avoid a crowd, would suffer only thirty people at a time to see me.

I walked about on the table as the girl commanded.