“Determined upon a separation, I marched apace for half-an-hour. ‘Do you mean to hold this rate?’ ‘It is best to hold daylight while we have it.’ I found I could match him at walking, whatever I might do at fighting. In half-an-hour more we came to a public-house, when he gave up the contest. ‘Will you step in and drink?’ ‘No, I shall be moving slowly; you may soon overtake me.’ “I stopped at Brixworth, having walked fifty-four miles, and my whole expense for the day was fivepence. “The next night, Tuesday the 9th, I reached Dunstable. Passing over Finchley Common on the third day, I overtook a carter, who told me I might be well accommodated at the ‘Horns,’ in St. John’s Street (Smithfield), by making use of his name. But it happened, in the eagerness of talking and the sound of his noisy cart, he forgot to tell his name, and I to ask it. “I arrived at the ‘Horns’ at five; described my director, whom they could not recollect. However, I was admitted as an inmate, and then ordered a mutton-chop and porter; but, alas! I was jaded, had fasted too long; my appetite was gone, and the chop nearly useless. “This meal, if it may be called a meal, was the only one during my stay; and I think the only time I ever ate under a roof. I did not know one soul in London, therefore could have no invitations. Life is supported with a little; which was well for me, because I had but little to give it. If a man has any money he will see stalls enough in London, which will supply him with something to eat, and it rests with him to lay out his money to the best advantage. If he cannot afford butter he must eat his bread without. This will tend to keep up his appetite, which will always give a relish to food, though mean; and scantiness will add to that relish. “Next morning I breakfasted in Smithfield, upon frumenty, at a wheelbarrow. Sometimes a half-pennyworth of soup and another of bread; at others bread and cheese. When nature calls, I must answer. I ate to live. “If a man goes to receive money it may take him long to do his business. If to pay money, it will take him less; and if he has but little to pay, still less. My errand fell under the third. I only wanted three alphabets of letters, figures, and ornamental tools for gilding books, with materials (leather and hoards) for binding.