"Might I cotch a ride?" she said to the man who was guiding the oxen.
"Tired, are ye?" called the man.
"Tired I'll be afore I gets to Homeview," said Sally.
Homeview was a plantation near Williamsburg.
"Get ye up then," said the man. "I goes far as Humphrey Three Corners, that's all."
By walking and begging many a mile's ride, and also by begging two or three cups of milk, Sally reached Parson Kendall's near supper time, as hungry and fagged a maiden as one would wish to see.
She managed to enter the porch and hang up the coat and hat without being seen by any of the parson's family. Then she started for the library, but met the parson in the hall.
"Whither away, maiden?" cried the parson, sternly.
"I would have speech with thee in the library," said Sally, rather faintly.
"And I would have speech with thee!" the parson replied.