hou think to bandy words with me? Wretch! I will
set goblins to pinch thee black and blue! I will drag thee at night over
all the jags of Mount Pepanon, at the tail of a mad nightmare! I will
put aches in all thy bones, and the blood in thy veins shall run into
sores and blotches. Am I not Friar Bungey? And what art thou?"

At these terrible denunciations, the sturdy Robin, though far less
superstitious than most of his contemporaries, was seized with a
trembling from head to foot; and expecting to see goblins and imps start
forth from the walls, he retired hastily from his hiding-place, and,
without waiting for further commune with Warner, softly opened the
chamber door and stole down the stairs. Adam, however, bore the storm
unquailingly, and when the holy man paused to take breath, he said
calmly,--

"Verily, if thou canst do these things, there must be secrets in Nature
which I have not yet discovered. Howbeit, though thou art free to try
all thou canst against me, thy threats make it necessary that this
communication between us should be nailed up, and I shall so order."

The friar, who was ever in want of Adam's aid, either to construe a bit
of Latin, or to help him in some chemical illusion, by no means relished
this quiet retort; and holding out his huge hand to Adam, said, with
affected cordiality,--

"Pooh! we are brothers, and must not quarrel. I was over hot, and thou
too provoking; but I honour and love thee, man,--let it pass. As for
this figure, doubtless we might pink it all over, and the earl be never
the worse. But if our employers order these things and pay for them, we
cunning men make profit by fools!"

"It is men like thee that bring shame on science," answered Adam,
sternly; "and I will not listen to thee longer."

"Nay, but you must," said the friar, clutching Adam's robe, and
concealing his resentment by an affected grin. "Thou thinkest me a mere
ignoramus--ha! ha!--I think the same of thee. Why, man, thou hast never
studied the parts of the human body, 1'11 swear."

"I'm no leech," said Adam. "Let me go."

"No, not yet. I will convict thee of ignorance. Thou dost not even know
where the liver is placed."

"I do," answered Adam, shortly; "but what then?"

"Thou dost?--I deny it. Here is a pin; stick it into this wax, man,
where thou sayest the liver lies in the human frame."

Adam unsuspiciously obeyed.

"Well! the liver is there, eh? Ah, but where are the lungs?"

"Why, here."