And he called me and gev me tuppence, and sez, 'You go to the devil,' he sez, 'and don't tell no one you seen me here, or else,' he sez, 'I might be tempted to drownd you,' he sez, 'and wot a shock that would be to your parents!' 'Oh, yes, very likely,' I sez, jes' like that.

Then I went away, because he knows Mr.
Wickens, and I was afeerd of his telling on me." The boy being now subdued, questions were put to him from all sides.
But his powers of observation and description went no further.

As he was anxious to propitiate his captors, he answered as often as possible in the affirmative.

Mr.Jansenius asked him whether the young woman he had seen was a lady, and he said yes.

Was the man a laborer?
Yes--after a moment's hesitation.