We had a ploughman of good habits who came in one day too late for his morning’s work, and he in excuse very seriously said, ‘May be if you had travelled all night as much as I have you wouldn’t talk. I was away with the gentry, and save for a lady I couldn’t have been back now. I saw a long hall full of many people. Some of them I knew and some I did not know. The lady saved me by telling me to eat no food there, however enticing it might be.’ 68