other more was that a horse is a poor which drinking nothing but water has to be up and warmed outside but a master being a creature ever filled with good beer has a store of inward heat that him to the skin and renders a cloak a mere of idle vanity each of the fell in love with his theory and to tell the truth both had taken a hair or two of the dog that had bitten their master to the brain so their voices presently rose so high that the green began to growl instead of in their heat they did not notice thi ere long the argument took a turn that sooner or later was pretty sure to a discussion in that age holding the bridle with his right band gave a sound with his left returned it with interest his right hand being free and at it they went over the horse s mane one another and the poor beast till he ran backward and with iron heel upon a of the green lord he like the stung by s spear started up howling with one hand clapped to the smart and the other at his the servants amazed with terror let the horse go he galloped off the men in pursuit of him crying out with fear and the green noble after them curses his naked sword in his hand and his body from hedge to hedge in his headlong but career down the narrow lane in which turned his back on them all and went calmly south glad to have saved the four tin he had got ready for but far too heavy hearted even to smile at their drunken extravagance the sun was nearly setting and who had now for some time been hoping in vain to find an inn by the way was very ill at ease to make matter worse black clouds gathered over the sky quickened his pace almost to a run it was in vain down came the rain in torrents the bewildered traveller and seemed to the very sun for his rays already fading could not cope with this new on dark and wet and in an unknown region to leave margaret said he the and the hearth presently the he was entering a great wood huge branches shot across the narrow road and the stranger bis way in what seemed an interminable and cave with a rugged floor on which he stumbled and stumbled as he went on and on and on with shivering limbs and empty stomach and faint heart the wolves rose from their and all round the wood his hair but he grasped his and prepared to sell bis life dear there was no wind and his excited ear beard light feet at times over the newly fallen leaves and low branches rustle with creatures gliding swiftly past them presently in the sea of ink there was a great fiery star close to the ground he hailed it as he would his patron saint candle a candle he shouted and tried to run but the dark and rugged way soon stopped that the light was more distant than he had thought but at last in the very heart of the forest he found a house with lighted candles and loud voices inside it he looked up to see if there was a sign board there was none not an inn after all said he sadly no matter what christian would turn a dog out into this wood to night and with this he made for the door that led to the voice he opened it slowly and put his head in timidly he drew it out abruptly as if in the and into the rain and darkness he had peeped into a lai but low room the middle of which was filled by a huge round stove or day oven that reached to the ceiling round this wet clothes were drying some on lines and some more on these latter with the wet of the day but the dirt of a life and lined with what another traveller in those parts calls rank and compound in steaming clouds in one comer was a travelling family a large ne thence flowed into the common stock the peculiar sickly smell of neglected til ed up the of the air and all this with closed window and intense heat of the furnace and the breath of at least forty they had just now like most artists had sensitive organs ai u the potent dismay into him but be rain lashed him outside and the light and the fire tempted him in he could not force his way all at once tl the palpable but he returned to the light again and again like the at last he discovered that the various smells did not entirely mix no being there to stir them of family in two rustic reigned supreme in the centre and in the noisy group by the window he found too by hasty analysis that of these the described the smallest and the scent of rustic darted farthest a as if ancient or the of all had drawn through a river and were here dried by so crept into a corner close to the door though the of the main isolated them somewhat the heat and and made the walls and the b me found something like a cold snake wind about bis legs and his head turn to a great lump of lead and next be felt like sweetly and dying all in one he was within an of but recovered to a deep sense of disgust and ment and settled to go back to holland at peep of day this resolution formed he plucked up a little heart and being faint with hunger asked one of the men of whether this was not aa inn after all � whence come you who 