Too heavy, you were hanged; too light, you were burned.

To this day the scales in which sorcerers were weighed may be seen at Oudewater, but they are now used for weighing cheeses; how religion has degenerated! Ursus would certainly have had a crow to pluck with those scales.

In his travels he kept away from Holland, and he did well.

Indeed, we believe that he used never to leave the United Kingdom.
However this may have been, he was very poor and morose, and having made the acquaintance of Homo in a wood, a taste for a wandering life had come over him.

He had taken the wolf into partnership, and with him had gone forth on the highways, living in the open air the great life of chance.