Page 3 - A Walk from Wellington to New Plymouth

I suppose by the fit, that she kept laying down and I could drag her no further so tied her to a
fence and went on without her.”

“This was about 3 miles from Wellington and about a mile further on, we met the policeman
carrying the mail and he agreed for 2/- to take Rose back to the ship. In consequence of the
above delay we succeeded only about 7 miles that night to a public-house called the halfway
house where we had tea and slept. For tea we had ham and eggs, very good as was the tea. The
house was of wood and next to our bedroom was a fowlhouse and Mr Smith was much annoyed
by a cock which kept crowing and he said I kept rocking backwards and forwards also in bed as
though I were in my hammock on board ship.”