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The information given by Luke Hempen had enabled the authorities in Lud finally to put a stop to the import of fairy fruit. As we have seen, the Dapple had been dragged near its source, and wicker frails had been brought up, so cunningly weighted that they could float beneath the surface of the water, and closely packed with what was unmistakably fairy fruit. After that no further cases of fruit-eating came to Mumchance's notice. But, for all that, his anxieties were by no means at an end, for the execution of Endymion Leer came near to causing a popular rising. An angry mob, armed with cudgels and led by Bawdy Bess, stormed the court of the Guildhall, cut down the body -- which had been left hanging on the gibbet as an example to evildoers -- and bore it off in triumph; and the longest funeral procession that had been seen for years was shortly following it to the Fields of Grammary.
The cautious Mumchance considered it would be imprudent to interfere with the obsequies.