It was not long that Jack waited after receiving the money; he went
off as fast as he could walk.

Presently the farmer came home and asked for his money. The wife told
him that she had sent it by a soldier to her former husband in
Paradise, to buy him leather for cobbling the shoes of the saints and
angels of Heaven. The farmer was very angry, and he swore that he had
never met with such a fool as his wife. But the wife said that her
husband was a greater fool for letting her have the money.

There was no time to waste words; so the farmer mounted his horse and
rode off after Jack Hannaford. The old soldier heard the horse's hoofs
clattering on the road behind him, so he knew it must be the farmer
pursuing him. He lay down on the ground, and shading his eyes with one
hand, looked up into the sky, and pointed heavenwards with the other
hand.

"What are you about there?" asked the farmer, pulling up.

"Lord save you!" exclaimed Jack: "I've seen a rare sight."

"What was that?"

"A man going straight up into the sky, as if he were walking on a
road."

"Can you see him still?"

"Yes, I can."