He bade me think over what he had said about joining the wars, and told me where he might be found during the next week or two.
"Ask for Tom Price," said he; "they all know me.

And on the day you're Lord Mayor of London, which I take it is not far hence, find me a humble seat below the salt at your lordship's table; and so farewell." I felt it lonely enough after my company had left; besides which, I clean lost my way, and was forced at last to seek the river and guide myself by that.

Heavy work it was; for the river's bank was swampy and often impassable with bushes and woods, so that I had to go miles out of my way to circumvent them, leading my horse by the hand.

At last, when I hardly knew where I was, night fell; and worn-out with weariness and hunger, I made for the first house I could see--which chanced to be an inn--and resolved to go no farther that night.
Had I gone on, I am certain of one thing, which is, that this veritable history would never have been written.

For I should not then have met the wild person who, just as I stood unharnessing my nag at the door, dashed past me and flung himself into the house..