From year's end to year's end you might look in vain for either of those two poor men in the public resorts of Mansoul.

When all the town was abroad on holidays and fair-days and feast-days, those two mean men were then closest at home.
And when the booths of the town were full of all kinds of wares and merchandise, and all the greens in the town were full of games, and plays, and cheats, and fools, and apes, and knaves, only those two penniless men would abide shut up at home.

At home; or else together they would go to a market-stance set up by their Prince outside the walls where one was stationed to stand and to cry: 'Ho! every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not?
Incline your ear and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live.' And sometimes the Prince would go out in person to meet the two men with nothing to pay, and would Himself say to them, I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, and white raiment, and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, till the two men, Mr.Desires-awake and Mr.Wet-eyes, would go home to their huts laden with their Prince's free gifts and royal bounties.
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But, with all that, Mr.Desires-awake never went out to his Prince's pavilion till he had again put his rope upon his head.