i had not done so in bad manners but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job job said the long legged young man to move a box i answered box said the long legged young man i told him mine which was down that street there and which i wanted him to take to the coach office for sixpence the personal history and experience done with you for a said the long legged young man and directly got upon his cart which was nothing but a large wooden tray on wheels and rattled away at such a rate that it was as much as i could do to keep pace with the donkey there was a defiant manner about this young man and particularly about the way in which he straw as he spoke to me that i did not much like as the bargain was made however i took him up stairs to the room i was leaving and we brought the box down and put it on his cart now i was to put the direction card on there lest any of my landlord s family should what i was doing and detain me so i said to the young man that i would be glad if he would stop for a minute when he came to the dead wall of the king s bench prison the words were no sooner out of ray mouth than he rattled away as if he my box the cart and the donkey were all equally mad and i was quite out of breath with running and calling after him when i caught him at the place appointed being much flushed and excited i tumbled my half guinea out of my pocket in the card out i put it in my mouth for safety and though my hands trembled a good deal had just tied the card on very much to my satisfaction when i felt myself violently under the chin by the long legged young man and saw my half guinea fly out of my mouth into his hand said the young man seizing me by my jacket collar w ith a frightful grin this is a case is it you re a going to bolt are you come to the you young come to the you give me my money back if you please said i very much frightened and leave me alone come to the said the young man you shall prove it to the give me my box and money will you i cried bursting into tears the young man still come to the and was dragging me against the donkey in a manner as if there were any between that animal and a magistrate when he changed his mind jumped into the cart sat upon my box and exclaiming that he would drive to the straight rattled away harder than ever i ran after him as fast as i could but i had no breath to call out with and should not have dared to call out now if i had i narrowly escaped being run over twenty times at least in half a mile now i lost him now i saw him now i lost him now i was cut at with a whip now shouted at now down in the mud now up again now running into somebody s arms now headlong at a post at length confused by fright and heat and doubting whether half london might not by this time be turning out for my apprehension i left the young man to go where he would with my box and money and panting and crying but never stopping faced about for which i had understood was on the taking very little more out of the world towards the retreat of my aunt miss than i had brought into if on the night when mv arrival gave her so much j y m j j y r yo e y t y s y t e of david i xiii the of my resolution for anything i know i may have had some wild idea of running all the way to when i gave up the pursuit of the young man with the donkey cart and started for my scattered senses were soon collected as to that point if i had for i came to a stop in the at a terrace with a piece of water before it and a great foolish image in the middle blowing a dry shell here i sat down on a quite spent and exhausted with the efforts i had already made and with hardly breath enough to cry for the loss of my box and it was by this time dark i heard the strike ten as i sat resting � but it was a summer night fortunately and fine weather when i had recovered my breath and had got rid of a stifling sensation in my throat i rose up and went on in the midst of my distress i had no notion of going back i doubt if i should have had any though there had been a snow drift in the but my standing possessed of only three in the world and i am sure i wonder how came to be left in my pocket on a day night troubled me none the less because i went on i began to picture to myself as a scrap of newspaper intelligence my being found dead in a day or two under some hedge and i on miserably though as fast as i could until i happened to pass a little shop where it was written up that ladies and gentlemen s were bought and that the best price was given for rags bones and kitchen stuff the master of this shop was sitting at the door in his shirt sleeves smoking and as there were a great many coats and pairs of 