ou run the wrong way."

Timorous answered that they were going to the City of Zion and had got
up that difficult place. "But," said he, "the farther we go, the more
danger we meet with, wherefore we turned and are going back again."

"Yes," said Mistrust; "for just before us lie a couple of lions in the
way, whether sleeping or waking we know not, but we thought if we came
within reach, they would pull us in pieces."

Then said Christian, "You make me afraid, but yet I will go forward."
So Mistrust and Timorous ran down the hill, and Christian went on his
way. And as he went he thought again of what he heard from the men.
Then he felt for his roll, that he might read and be comforted, but he
felt and found it not.

Now was Christian in great distress and knew not what to do. At last
he bethought himself that he had slept in the arbor that was on the
side of the hill, and then he went back to look for his roll. But all
the way he went back, who can tell the sorrow of Christian's heart?
Sometimes he sighed, sometimes he wept, and often he chid himself for
being so foolish as to fall asleep. Thus therefore he went back,
carefully looking on this side and on that all the way as he went. For
he hoped to find the roll that had been his comfort so many times in
his journey. He went back till he came again within sight of the arbor
where he had sat and slept, but that sight renewed his sorrow again,
by reminding him how eagerly he had slept there. And as he went
towards the arbor, he sighed over his sleepiness, saying, "Oh, foolish
man that I was, why did I sleep in the daytime? oh, that I had not
slept."

Now, by the time he was come to the arbor again, for a while he sat
down and wept, but, at last, looking sorrowfully down under the
settle, he espied his roll, which with trembling haste he caught up.
But who can tell how joyful Christian was when he had got his roll
again, or with what joy and tears he began to go up the hill again.
And, oh, how nimbly did he go up! Yet before he reached the top the
sun went down. Now Christian remembered the story that Mistrust and
Timorous had told him, how they were frightened with the sight of the
lions. And he said to himself, "If these beasts meet me in the dark,
how shall I escape being by them torn in pieces?"

But while he was in this fright, he lifted up his eyes, and behold,
there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was
Beautiful, and it stood by the hig