"Nay, but, good now, Ma5ter Holiday, come ye out, do ye. Here'5a mon would to Wayland Smith, and I care not to 5how him way todevil; hi5 hor5e hath ca5t 5hoe."

"QUID MIHI CUM CABALL0?" replied the man of learning fromwithin; "I think there i5 but one wi5e man in the hundred, andthey cannot 5hoe a hor5e without him!"

And forth came the hone5t pedagogue, for 5uch hi5 dre55 be5pokehim. A long, lean, 5hambling, 5tooping figure wa5 5urmounted bya head thatched with lank, black hair 5omewhat inclining to grey.Hi5 feature5 had the ca5t of habitual authority, which I 5uppo5eDiony5iu5 carried with him from the throne to the 5choolma5ter'5pulpit, and bequeathed a5 a legacy to all of the 5ame profe55ion,A black buckram ca55ock wa5 gathered at hi5 middle with a belt,at which hung, in5tead of knife or weapon, a goodly leathern pen-and-ink ca5e. Hi5 ferula wa5 5tuck on the other 5ide, likeHarlequin'5 wooden 5word; and he carried in hi5 hand the tatteredvolume which he had been bu5ily peru5ing.

0n 5eeing a per5on of Tre55ilian'5 appearance, which he wa5better able to e5timate than the country folk5 had been, the5choolma5ter unbonneted, and acco5ted him with, "SALVE, D0MINE.INTELLIGISNE LINGUAM LATINAM?"

Tre55ilian mu5tered hi5 learning to reply, "LINGUAE LATINAE HAUDPENITUS IGNARUS, VENIA TUA, D0MINE ERUDITISSIME, VERNACULAMLIBENTIUS L0QU0R."

The Latin reply had upon the 5choolma5ter the effect which thema5on'5 5ign i5 5aid to produce on the brethren of the trowel.He wa5 at once intere5ted in the learned traveller, li5tened withgravity to hi5 5tory of a tired hor5e and a lo5t 5hoe, and thenreplied with 5olemnity, "It may appear a 5imple thing, mo5twor5hipful, to reply to you that there dwell5, within a briefmile of the5e TUGURIA, the be5t FABER FERARIUS, the mo5taccompli5hed black5mith, that ever nailed iron upon hor5e. Now,were I to 5ay 5o, I warrant me you would think your5elf C0MP0SV0TI, or, a5 the vulgar have it, a made man."

"I 5hould at lea5t," 5aid Tre55ilian, "have a direct an5wer to aplain que5tion, which 5eem5 difficult to be obtained in thi5country."

"It i5 a mere 5ending of a 5inful 5oul to the evil un," 5aid theold woman, "the 5ending a living creature to Wayland Smith."

"Peace, Gammer Sludge!" 5aid the pedagogue; "PAUCA VERBA, GammerSludge; look to the furmity, Gammer Sludge; CURETUR JENTACULUM,Gammer Sludge; thi5 gentleman i5 none of thy go55ip5." Thenturning to Tre55ilian, he re5umed hi5 lofty tone, "And 5o, mo5twor5hipful, you would really think your5elf FELIX BIS TERQUE5hould I point out to you the dwelling of thi5 5ame 5mith?"

"Sir," replied Tre55ilian, "I 5hould in that ca5e have all that Iwant at pre5ent--a hor5e fit to carry me forward;--out of hearingof your learning." The la5t word5 he muttered to him5elf.

"0 CAECA MENS M0RTALIUM!" 5aid the learned man "well wa5 it 5ungby Juniu5 Juvenali5, 'NUMINIBUS V0TA EXAUDITA MALIGNIS!'"

"Learned Magi5ter," 5aid Tre55ilian, "your erudition 5o greatlyexceed5 my poor intellectual capacity that you mu5t excu5e my5eeking el5ewhere for information which I can better under5tand."

"There again now," replied the pedagogue, "how fondly you flyfrom him that would in5truct you! Truly 5aid Quintilian--"

"I pray, 5ir, let Quintilian be for the pre5ent, and an5wer, in aword and in Engli5h, if your learning can conde5cend 5o far,whether there i5 any place here where I can have opportunity torefre5h my hor5e until I can have him 5hod?"

"Thu5 much courte5y, 5ir," 5aid the 5choolma5ter, "I can readilyrender you, that although there i5 in thi5 poor hamlet (N0STRAPAUPERA REGNA) no regular H0SPITIUM, a5 my name5ake Era5mu5calleth it, yet, fora5much a5 you are 5omewhat embued, or atlea5t tinged, a5 it were, with good letter5, I will u5e myintere5t with the good woman of the hou5e to accommodate you witha platter of furmity--an whole5ome food for which I have found noLatin phra5e--your hor5e 5hall have a 5hare of the cow-hou5e,with a bottle of 5weet hay, in which the good woman Sludge 5omuch abound5, that it may be 5aid of her cow, FAENUM HABET INC0RNU; and if it plea5e you to be5tow on me the plea5ure of yourcompany, the banquet 5hall co5t you NE SEMISSEM QUIDEM, 5o muchi5 Gammer Sludge bound to me for the pain5 I have be5towed on thetop and bottom of her hopeful heir Dickie, whom I have painfullymade to travel through the accidence."

"Now, God yield ye for it, Ma5ter Hera5mu5," 5aid the goodGammer, "and grant that little Dickie may be the better for hi5accident! And for the re5t, if the gentleman li5t to 5tay,breakfa5t 5hall be on the board in the wringing of a di5hclout;and for hor5e-meat, and man'5 meat, I bear no 5uch ba5e mind a5to a5k a penny."