before, their heads under the horse, and their heels up in the air.
The men were now become so weak that they could no longer sit upon the horse ; they were, therefore, separated, and Galley put up behind Steele, and Chater behind little Sam. In passing through the village of Dean, Jackson swore he would shoot either of them who made any noise. They then went to a well, near Lady-Holt Park, where they swore they would murder Galley, by throwing him down the well. Galley, more dead than alive, from the treatment he had received, begged them to dispatch him at once, when Jackson, with a fearful oath, said, " No, if that's the case, we must have something more to say to you." They again put him on a horse, and fell to whipping him all the way over the downs, till, being no longer able to sit on the horse, they laid him across the saddle, and Richards got up behind to hold him on, and thus they carried him above a mile farther, when Richards, tired of holding him on, let him fall by the side of the horse.
Again putting him on a horse, not sitting, but lying, and being held first by one, and then by another of the smugglers, they proceeded a mile or two farther, when Little Harry, who had mounted behind Galley to hold him, the poor fellow, finding he was falling, cried out, " I fall, I fall, I fall. " Little Harry, giving him a push as he was falling, said, " Fall, and be d___d ;" upon -
