Tom Jones Book 12, Chapter 11

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.