The smith thought of all this, and asked: "Why do you not go to one of the inns ?" "There is no room there." "Nonsense! that is impossible.

Have you been to Robinson's ?" "I have been to all." "Well ?" The traveller continued with some hesitation, "I do not know why; but they all refuse to take us in." The man knew there was something wrong with the travellers, and turning about, he held a whispered consultation with his wife.

She was heard to say in a faint whisper: "It is the same, a man with a child." Then the smith turned on the stranger, and said: "Be off." The proud eye of a daring trooper in despair is the saddest sight one ever gazed upon.

Such was the look of the humiliated man, as, with his starving child, he turned from the last door.

At times the spirit of revenge rose in his breast, and he was inclined to turn on the men who refused his child food, drink and shelter, and with his stout knotted stick beat out their brains; but, on second thought, he restrained himself and said: "No--no; I will not make an outlaw of myself.