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Thus the mind of Frick was exactly of the sort for Mr Solo more plenteous ideas of the same

order, with a suspicion of heaven and earth which was better fed and

more entirely at leisure Solomon was overseer of the roads at that

time, and on his slow-paced cob often took his rounds by Frick to look

at the work with a ht havethat he had

so than thewhile at any work that was going on, he would

raise his eyes a little and look at the horizon; finally he would shake

his bridle, touch his horse with the whip, and get it to move slowly

onward The hour-hand of a clock was quick by coreeable sense that he could afford to be slow

He was in the habit of pausing for a cautious, vaguely designing chat

with every hedger or ditcher on his way, and was especially willing to

listen even to nehich he had heard before, feeling hie over all narrators in partially disbelieving theue with Hiraoner, in which he

himself contributed information He wished to knohether Hira about: they called