e you
going to catch the squirrel with two sacks full of fruit? Now,
gentlemen, you will both be kind enough to march out of this
orchard: and if ever you are caught in here again you shall
certainly go to gaol.

The men then went away, which recovered me from my second fright;
for I expected, every minute, they would climb and take me.
However, I was agreeably disappointed.

I then descended, and ran out of the orchard as fast as I could,
till I found myself so hungry, I determined to trust myself once
more to somebody that looked good-natured, if I could see any body
I thought looked so. While I was thinking, a stage came by, so (at
random) I gave a leap into the basket, where I found a few crumbs
of bread. I remained very quiet till the stage suddenly broke
down. I thought it high time to quit my seat, so jumped out, and
crept into an old lady's pocket, who was lying amongst the rest
on the road. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and the coachman sent
somebody for a post chaise, which soon arrived. We all crowded in,
till it was full. My mistress happened to get an inside place, and
we went off laughing at the disaster. At last we came to London,
where I did not dare stir from the pocket of the lady, so kept my
place with great composure. My mistress, for so I shall call her,
was then put into another stage, and after a journey of about four
miles, she stopped at a very handsome house. My mistress being in
a great hurry to get out and compose herself, opened the coach
door herself, but not having sufficient power, her foot slipped
and she fell out. I was so alarmed at this, that I scrambled
out of her pocket, and made the best of my way towards the house
door, where I certainly should have entered, had I not heard the
different mews of half a dozen cats. Those sounds were not very
pleasing to me, so I ran off unperceived; for the confusion at
the garden door was not yet at an end. I had not run far, before
I met a man with a pair of very large boots in his hand. He
unfortunately spied me, and taking me up, put me into one of them,
and thrust me down into the foot. He had walked within a mile of
the fields where you were when you first became possessed of me,
when he set the boots down, and began fighting with a man he had
been quarrelling with some part of the way, I jumped out of my
place of confinement, and ran till I came to the place where you
were sitting, and being very hungry, I ventured to creep into
your po