You know, also, that the new asphalt path from the new blocks of houses comes to our very garden gate.

Well, people can come so far without muddying their boots.

Now, our garden abuts almost on the railway-platform, so I propose sweeping a path straight across from the road, putting up a gate at each end, and saving people five hundred yards of quagmire, and a good five minutes in time, and a lot of swear-words, and my charge for all these improvements will be one penny!" The next morning, at half-past seven, the new path of forty yards was swept from end to end, some of the palings were pulled down near the railway-bank, and another small path swept up to the platform.
An old door was placed lengthwise over the front gate and painted white, and on it, in somewhat clumsy printing, was the announcement:--"Quickest way to Endwell Railway-Station.

Dry all the way.

Admission, one penny." About eight o'clock the business men came hurrying along under their umbrellas, for it was still drizzling.