he blessed mrs. cherry for her efforts in making him memorize verse , until it became apparent that the townsfolk of fulkeston had decided that he would stay with them forever and become the next bard of the town ; tristran and yvaine were forced to sneak out of the town at the dead of night , and they only escaped because yvaine persuaded ( by some means , on which tristran was never entirely clear ) the dogs of the town not to bark as they left .