The Disasters Which Befel Jones on His Departure for Coventry, With the Sage Remarks of Partridge
- The road from Coventry to London is really obvious.
- It should be impossible to get lost except that, somehow, Tom and Partridge are.
- They've been going on small side roads instead of the main road, and the weather is bad.
- Partridge believes that they've been cursed by a witch.
- Tom laughs, and Partridge falls from his horse. (Luckily, he's not injured.)
- This fall makes Patridge sure that a witch is involved.
- Tom asks, if this is a witch's curse, why Partridge was the one who fell off his horse when it was Tom who was mocking the whole idea of witchcraft?
- The guide and his horse then promptly fall in the mud.
- They are both fine, fortunately.
- Partridge, again, takes this as proof that a witch is casting an evil spell on them. Partridge believes that they have been bewitched to go in circles.
- Partridge thinks they should find an inn and hide, but Tom doesn't listen.