pplied
each petul hot, glowing hot to the pindro. {69c} Oh, how the hoofs
hissed; and, oh, the pleasant pungent odour which diffused itself through
the dingle, an odour good for an ailing spirit!

I shoed the little horse bravely--merely pricked him once, slightly with
a cafi, {69d} for doing which, I remember, he kicked me down; I was not
disconcerted, however, but, getting up, promised to be more cautious in
future; and having finished the operation, I filed the hoof well with the
rin baro; {69e} then dismissed him to graze amongst the trees, and,
putting my smaller tools into the muchtar, {69f} I sat down on my stone,
and, supporting my arm upon my knee, leaned my head upon my hand.
Heaviness had come over me.

CHAPTER III--THE DARK HOUR COMES UPON LAVENGRO AND HIS SOUL IS HEAVY
WITHIN HIM.

Heaviness had suddenly come over me, heaviness of heart, and of body
also. I had accomplished the task which I had imposed upon myself, and
now that nothing more remained to do, my energies suddenly deserted me,
and I felt without strength and without hope. Several causes, perhaps,
co-operated to bring about the state in which I then felt myself. It is
not improbable that my energies had been overstrained during the work,
the progress of which I have attempted to describe; and everyone is aware
that the results of overstrained energies are feebleness and
lassitude--want of nourishment might likewise have something to do with
it. During my sojourn in the dingle, my food had been of the simplest
and most unsatisfying description, by no means calculated to support the
exertion which the labour I had been engaged upon required; it had
consisted of coarse oaten cakes and hard cheese, and for beverage I had
been indebted to a neighbouring pit, in which, in the heat of the day, I
frequently saw, not golden or silver fish, but frogs and eftes swimming
about. I am, however, inclined to believe that Mrs. Herne's cake had
quite as much to do with the matter as insufficient nourishment. I had
never entirely recovered from the effects of its poison, but had
occasionally, especially at night, been visited by a grinding pain in the
stomach, and my whole body had been suffused with cold sweat; and indeed
these memorials of the drow {71} have never entirely disappeared--even at
the present time they display themselves in my system, especially after
much fatigue of body and excitement of mind. So there I sat in the
dingle upon m