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Either's straight enough to carry you
to his rack. You'll find your clothes at your boarding-house about
the time that you'll get there."
"Nay, sir, I already owe you much. Let them not trouble you. I will
take them myself."
"No, no, stranger!" was the reply of our fisherman, as he stooped
down and busied himself in making the garments into a compact bundle;
"I'm not the man to leave off without doing the thing I begin to
do. I sometimes do more than I bargain for--sometimes lick a man
soundly when I set out only to tweak his nose; but I make it a
sort of Christian law never to do less. You may reckon to find your
clothes home by the time you get there. There's your road."
"A regular pair of cubs!" muttered the horseman, as he ascended
the hill.
"To purse up his mouth as if I was giving him root-drink, when I
was telling him about Mother Frey's spoiling the fish! Let him take
care--he may get the vinegar next time, and not the fish!"
And, with these characteristic commentaries, the parties separated
for the time.



CHAPTER XVII.
PHILOSOPHY OP FIGHTING.


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