. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . no suspicion of mysituation, I Avas shot over the houses on the op-posite side of the river, into a farmers yard, be- 100 ORIGINAL TRAVELS OF tween Bermondsey and Deptfort, where I fell upona large hay-stack, without waking, and continuedthere in a sound sleep till hay became so extrava-gantly dear (which was about three months after),that the farmer found it his interest to send hiswhole stock to market. The stack I was reposingupon was the largest in the yard, containing abovefive hundred load: they began to cut that first. Iwake
. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen; . no suspicion of mysituation, I Avas shot over the houses on the op-posite side of the river, into a farmers yard, be- 100 ORIGINAL TRAVELS OF tween Bermondsey and Deptfort, where I fell upona large hay-stack, without waking, and continuedthere in a sound sleep till hay became so extrava-gantly dear (which was about three months after),that the farmer found it his interest to send hiswhole stock to market. The stack I was reposingupon was the largest in the yard, containing abovefive hundred load: they began to cut that first. Iwaked with the voices of the people who had as-cended the ladders to begin at the top, and got uj),totally ignorant of my situation: in attempting torun away, I fell upon the farmer to whom the haybelonged, and broke his neck, yet received noinjury myself. I afterwards found, to my greatconsolation, that this fellow was a most detest-able character, always keeping the produce of hisgrounds for extravagant markets. BARON MUNCHAUSEN, 107 (filtt^tpt^v W\vt\xixH\ E. DRYBONES travels toSicily, which I had readwith great pleasure, in-duced me to pay a visit to- Mount Etna: my voyageto this place was not attended with any circum-stances worth relating. One morning early, tliree orfour days after my arrival, I set out from a cottagewhere I had slept, witliin six miles of the foot ofthe mountain, determined to explore the internalparts, if I perished in the attempt. After three hourshard labor, I found myself at the top. It was then,and had been for upwards of three weeks, raging:its appearance in this state has been so frequentlynoticed by different travellers, that I will not tireyou with descriptions of objects you are already ac-quainted with. I walked round the edge of tlie 108 ORIGINAL TRAVELS OF crater, which appeared to be lifty times at least ascapacious as the Devils Punch-Bowl near Peters-field, on the Portsmouth Road, but not so broad atthe bottom, as in that part it resemble
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