quantities), and, while my mouth was yet open to receive the spoon, she would put it back into the basin, cry ‘Janet!

Donkeys!’ and go out to the assault.

The bath was a great comfort. For I began to be sensible of acute pains in my limbs from lying out in the fields, and was now so tired and low that I could hardly keep myself awake for five minutes together. When I had bathed, they (I mean my aunt and Janet) enrobed me in a shirt and a pair of trousers belonging to Mr. Dick, and tied me up in two or three great shawls. What sort of bundle I looked like, I don’t know, but I felt a very hot one.

Feeling also very faint and drowsy, I soon lay down on the sofa again and fell asleep.