I led them by the middle road.
That the middle road had not character enough to continue for any quarter of a mile in the same direction; that after three miles up and down hill it ended abruptly in a wasps' nest, was not a thing that should have been laid to my door.

If the middle road had gone in the direction it ought to have done, it would have taken us to where we wanted to go, of that I am convinced.
Even as it was, I would have continued to use this gift of mine to discover a fresh way had a proper spirit been displayed towards me.

But I am not an angel--I admit this frankly,--and I decline to exert myself for the ungrateful and the ribald.

Besides, I doubt if George and Harris would have followed me further in any event.

Therefore it was that I washed my hands of the whole affair, and that Harris entered upon the vacancy.
"Well," said Harris.