I put on my hat one day, and walked into the country.

My College fellows were hawkers, tinkers, tramps and ploughmen, choughs and crows.

A volume of our Poets and a History of Philosophy composed my library.

I had scarce any money, so I learnt how to idle inexpensively--a good first lesson.

We're at the bottom of the world when we take to the road; we see men as they were in the beginning--not so eager for harness till they get acquainted with hunger, as I did, and studied in myself the old animal having his head pushed into the collar to earn a feed of corn.' Woodseer laughed, adding, that he had been of a serious mind in those days of the alternation of smooth indifference and sharp necessity, and he had plucked a flower from them.
His nature prompted him to speak of himself with simple candour, as he had done spontaneously to Chillon Kirby, yet he was now anxious to let his companion know at once the common stuff he was made of, together with the great stuff he contained.