have had the credit of bringing him to life again, nor he the pleafure of being cur'd by my hands. And now, mafter conftable, you will do well to betake yourself to his worship, and move him to revoke his mittimus, for here comes old Thomas Weevil himself, and he will verify every word that I have been telling you."

The miller now made his appearance, and entering the juftice's private chamber with Kinloch, there gave fuch an account of the affair, from the authority of his fon, whofe head, though roughly treated, had not been deprived of recollection, as made it neceffary for Blachford to give orders for fetting Henry at large.

Great was the joy and exultation of Ezekiel Daw upon this occafion, and not the less for the credit he took to himself in having given proof of his fuperior fagacity in difcovering the innocence of the fufpected perfon, in fpite of all the circumftances urged against him. It is, however, to be lamented, that the ftir and buftle of the crowd was now too great to admit of Ezekiel's being heard, who had fo fair an occafion of displaying his eloquence; but though he frequently called

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for attention, crying out,-" Hear me, neighbours, hear me I befeech you; I am a man of few words," yet all was in vain, they neither gave ear to his words, nor is it quite fo certain that they would have been only a few, had they given ear to them; fo the matter dropt, and his eloquence was ftrangled. in the birth.

CHAPTER XI.

When the Heart is right, the Man will be reSpectable, though his Humours are ridiculous. WHEN old Weevil returned from Blach

ford's chamber with the order of releafe, he came up to Henry, and taking him cordially by the hand, declared before all prefent, that it was to his courage and humanity he ow'd the preservation of his son's life; he lamented the hurt he had got in his defence, offered him his house, purse, and every affiftance in his power; confeffed that the whole blame of the fray on the green rested with his fon, and added with an oath, that he had been cruelly dealt by, both then and in the prefent cafe, and that he had told Justice. Blachford

Blachford as much to his face,-" For why ?" cried he;"'tis a fin and a fhame, to give evil for good to this poor lad, who in the short time he has been a stranger amongst us, has fav'd his master from drowning, and my boy from being murder'd; and what has he got for it? why truly, he has been stock'd, maim'd, and imprifon'd.- Shame upon fuch treatment! fay I; nay, I'm not afraid to say, and I care not who hears me; fhame upon fuch justices! and now they tell me," added he, addreffing himself to Henry, " your mafter has turn'd you away: if fo, my lad, come to the mill, and fo long as there's a wheel that turns, you shall never want a day's work, and a day's pay."

Henry thank'd him for all his offers, but defired to fet him right about his master, from whom he had received the kindeft treatment; and as for leaving his fervice, that, he affured the miller, was entirely his own act and deed, for which he had certain reasons, that by no means applied to the perfon of Doctor Cawdle." No, no," said Kinloch,

we know well enough which way those reasons look, and that perfon, I can tell you, is in a terrible taking at your leaving us as

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for the Doctor, he will give you a hearty welcome; and for my part, my good lad, I have fuch a foft fide towards you, that if you will buckle to the business, and observe what I fhall teach you, I will make a man of you, and perhaps enable you in time to perform as great a cure as I hope to perfect on the body of neighbour Weevil's fon, who, by the Doctor's indisposition, is happily fallen under my hands."

The crowd now difperfed, and evening being advanced, Henry's ankle withal in no. condition for journeying, he was constrained to forego his engagement to Sufan, and accepted the friendly invitation of Ezekiel Daw, to pass the night at the cottage of Mother May, where that good creature took up his abode.

When Ezekiel had refreshed his gueft with fuch humble viands as his ftore contained, and Goody May had again fomented his ankle, Henry, having now appeafed two importunate folicitors, pain and hunger, began to make those grateful acknowledgments which his heart fuggefted, till he was ftopped short by both parties at once, who filenced him by protefting they would not be thanked for do

ing nothing more than common humanity required of them to do." As for me, faid Ezekiel, "I declare unto you in verity, that this hath been unto me an occafion of triumph and ovation, and if thou, Henry, had'ft turned out other than a true man and an honest, I would hardly have been perfuaded to put faith in the index of the human heart any more; but thou haft verified the hand-writing of nature in thy features, and my bowels did not yearn towards thee without reason. Truly, young man, my heart rejoiceth in thy deliverance, and great is my joy that thou art found innocent in the fight of thine enemies; therefore will I fing and give praife with the best member that I have; and thou, Goody May, although thy pipe is but feeble, fhalt bear thy part in the melody."

This faid, the good man uttered a dolorous hum, by way of pitch - note, which was echoed by dame May in a fhrill octave, and then, delivering out the first line of John Hopkins's 108th pfalm, he fet up his note, with fo loud and nafal a twang, as made Henry almoft jump from his feat, and with more fervency than melody, chanted forth the aforefaid pfalm, accompanied after a fashion

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