Note 541 — Chapter XIX

Here we may mention that it is probable that John Bunyan was at that time in the Royalist army, and that while he was fighting for the King the incident occurred so often related of his post being occupied by a comrade who could handle a musket better than he could do, and who, on account of his superior skill and bravery, unfortunately received a fatal carbine shot which otherwise might have killed our matchless dreamer. Nobody can say what the world lost by that poor fellow's death, but everybody knows what the world gained by John Bunyan's preservation.