as attached,
necessarily hitched against this projection; and thus the cord was as
it were fastened to the wall, and Tomlinson was enabled by it to draw
himself up to the top of the barrier. He performed this feat with
gymnastic address, like one who had often practised it; albeit the
discreet adventurer had not mentioned in his narrative to Paul any
previous occasion for the practice. As soon as he had gained the top of
the wall, he threw down the cord to his companion, and, in consideration
of Paul's inexperience in that manner of climbing, gave the fastening of
the rope an additional security by holding it himself. With slowness and
labour Paul hoisted himself up; and then, by transferring the stone to
the other side of the wall, where it made of course a similar hitch, our
two adventurers were enabled successively to slide down, and consummate
their escape from the House of Correction.

"Follow me now!" said Augustus, as he took to his heels; and Paul
pursued him through a labyrinth of alleys and lanes, through which he
shot and dodged with a variable and shifting celerity that, had not
Paul kept close upon him, would very soon, combined with the fog, have
snatched him from the eyes of his young ally. Happily the immaturity of
the morning, the obscurity of the streets passed through, and above all,
the extreme darkness of the atmosphere, prevented that detection and
arrest which their prisoner's garb would otherwise have insured them. At
length they found themselves in the fields; and skulking along hedges,
and diligently avoiding the highroad, they continued to fly onward,
until they had advanced several miles into "the bowels of the land."
At that time "the bowels" of Augustus Tomlinson began to remind him of
their demands; and he accordingly suggested the desirability of their
seizing the first peasant they encountered, and causing him to exchange
clothes with one of the fugitives, who would thus be enabled to enter
a public-house and provide for their mutual necessities. Paul agreed
to this proposition, and accordingly they watched their opportunity and
caught a ploughman. Augustus stripped him of his frock, hat, and worsted
stockings; and Paul, hardened by necessity and companionship, helped to
tie the poor ploughman to a tree. They then continued their progress
for about an hour, and, as the shades of evening fell around them,
they discovered a public-house. Augustus entered, and returned in a few
minutes lade