As for the gun itself, he would not so much as touch it for several days after; but he would speak to it and talk to it, as if it had answered him, when he was by himself; which, as I afterwards learned of him, was to desire it not to kill him.
Quanto allo schioppo, si guardò ben dal toccarlo per molti dì appresso. Unicamente quando si credea solo gli parlava, come se lo schioppo avesse potuto rispondergli, e seppi da poi dal medesimo Venerdì che que’ borbottamenti erano preghiere di non ammazzarlo.