CHAPTER XIX.
Trying the Horse--The Feats of Tawno--Man with the Red Waist-coat--Disposal of Property.
I saw nothing more of Mr.Petulengro that evening--on the morrow, however, he came and informed me that he had secured the horse for me, and that I was to go and pay for it at noon.

At the hour appointed, therefore, I went with Mr.Petulengro and Tawno to the public, where, as before, there was a crowd of company.

The landlord received us in the bar with marks of much satisfaction and esteem, made us sit down, and treated us with some excellent mild draught ale.

"Who do you think has been here this morning ?" he said to me, "why, that fellow in black, who came to carry me off to a house of Popish devotion, where I was to pass seven days and nights in meditation, as I think he called it, before I publicly renounced the religion of my country.

I read him a pretty lecture, calling him several unhandsome names, and asking him what he meant by attempting to seduce a church-warden of the Church of England.