The other had been mis-shod, causing the horse to favor that leg slightly.

By this time, mine hostress set before us our dish of herrings, which, with oatmeal cakes, potatoes, and buttermilk, furnished one of the heartiest dinners I ever ate;

More concerningly, the major protagonist of this section is not a recognizable character but an archetypal, invisible villain — AIDS.

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead!