"'Twill be eating coined money," said he; "for the burgomaster of Dusseldorf had given us a rix-dollar for these ears, as proving the death of their owners; but better a lean purse than a lere stomach." "Unhappy man!" cried Gerard, "could you eat food here ?" "Where the fire is lighted there must the meat roast, and where it roasts there must it be eaten; for nought travels worse than your roasted meat." "Well, eat thou, Denys, an thou canst! but I am cold and sick; there is no room for hunger in my heart after what mine eyes have seen," and he shuddered over the fire.

"Oh! how they creak! and who is this man, I wonder?
what an ill-favoured churl!" Denys examined him like a connoisseur looking at a picture, and in due course delivered judgment.

"I take him to be of the refuse of that company, whereof these (pointing carelessly upward) were the cream, and so ran their heads into danger.
"At that rate, why not stun him before he wakes ?" and Gerard fidgeted where he sat.
Denys opened his eyes with humorous surprise.

"For one who sets up for a milksop you have the readiest hand.

Why should two stun one?
tush! he wakes: note now what he says at waking, and tell me." These last words were hardly whispered when the watcher opened his eyes.
At sight of the fire made up, and two strangers eyeing him keenly, he stared, and there was a severe and pretty successful effort to be calm; still a perceptible tremor ran all over him.