However, I bears no malice.

Here is a hand to each of you; we'll take another glass each, and think no more about it." The jockey having shaken both of our hands, and filled our glasses and his own with what champagne remained in the bottle, put on his coat, sat down, and resumed his pipe and story.
"Where was I?
Oh, roaming about the country with Hopping Ned and Biting Giles.

Those were happy days, and a merry and prosperous life we led.
However, nothing continues under the sun in the same state in which it begins, and our firm was soon destined to undergo a change.

We came to a village where there was a very high church steeple, and in a little time my comrades induced a crowd of people to go and see me display my gift by flinging stones above the heads of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, who stood at the four corners on the top, carved in stone.

The parson, seeing the crowd, came waddling out of his rectory to see what was going on.