to beat these grinding, thieving,
burning, and throat-cutting Tories. And, moreover, a brave man ought
never to be cast down by such vermin; that's my religion, Mr. Musgrove,
though you mought hardly expect to find much thought of such things left
in a rough fellow like me, that's been hammered in these here wars like
an old piece of iron that's been one while a plough coulter, and after
that a gun-barrel, and finally that's been run up with others into a
piece of ordnance--not to say that it moughtn't have been a horse shoe
in some part of its life, ha! ha! ha! There's not likely to be much
conscience or religion left after all that hammering."

"'He shall keep the simple folk by their right,'" said Musgrove, quoting
a passage from the Psalms, "'defend the children of the poor and punish
the wrong-doer.' You have finished your supper, Mr. Robinson," he
continued, "and before we retire to rest you will join us in the
conclusion of our family worship, which was interrupted by your coming
into the house. We will sing a Psalm which has been given to us by that
man whose deliverance has taught you where you are to look for yours."

"If I cannot help to make music, Allen," said Horse Shoe, "I can listen
with good will."

The miller now produced a little book in black-letter, containing a
familiar and ancient version of the Psalms, and the following quaint and
simple lines were read by him in successive couplets, the whole family
singing each distich as soon as it was given out--not excepting Horse
Shoe, who, after the first couplet, having acquired some slight
perception of the tune, chimed in with a voice that might have alarmed
the sentinels of Innis's camp:

"A king that trusteth in his host
Shall not prevail at length;
The man that of his might doth boast
Shall fall, for all his strength.

"The troops of horsemen eke shall fail,
Their sturdy steeds shall starve:
The strength of horse shall not prevail
The rider to preserve.

"But so the eyes of God intend,
And watch to aid the just;
With such as fear him to offend,
And on his goodness trust.

"That he of death and great distress
May set their souls from dread;
And if that dearth their land oppress,
In hunger them to feed.

"Wherefore our soul doth whole depend
On God, our strength and stay;
He is our shield us to defend
And drive all darts away."

When this act of devotion w