text:  "Odds pittikins man " he blurted out immediately afterwards in another and more natural tone "would you have me in arrest again for sleeping on my post? That is to say " continued the Puritan soldier casting up his eyes and again resuming his canting whine "verily and of a truth the hand of the scourger has been heavy upon me; the unjust have prevailed against me; but I will watch that I fall not again into their toils