do not know that any law of God doth forbid me to ride on this day."

"No!" said he: "that's strange. Where, I wonder, was you bred?
You can read, can't you?"--"Yes," said I, "that I can."--"Don't you
then read," said he, "the commandment, 'Remember the Sabbath-day to
keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work; but
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord; in it thou shalt not do
any work.'"--"Yes," replied I, "I have both read it often, and
remember it very well. But that command was given to the Jews, not
to Christians; and this is not that day, for that was the seventh
day, but this is the first."--"How," said he, "do you know the days
of the week no better? You had need then be better taught."

Here the younger constable, whose name was Cherry, interposing,
said: "Mr. Warden, the gentleman is in the right as to that, for
this is the first day of the week, and not the seventh."

This the old warden took in dudgeon, and looking severely on the
constable, said: "What! do you take upon you to teach me? I'll
have you know I will not be taught by you."--"As you please for
that, sir," said the constable; "but I am sure you are mistaken in
this point; for Saturday I know is the seventh day, and you know
yesterday was Saturday."

This made the warden hot and testy, and put him almost out of all
patience, so that I feared it would have come to a downright quarrel
betwixt them, for both were confident and neither would yield; and
so earnestly were they engaged in the contest, that there was no
room for me to put in a word between them.