Unconsciously he had leaned backward until he sat upon his heels.

Now, with an odd expression of mingled pain and relief, he reached into the hip pocket of his trousers and produced a pair of spectacles.

He smiled his slow, fleeting smile.
"There!" he observed, "I found 'em my way--backwards.

Anybody else would have found 'em by looking for 'em; I lost 'em lookin' for 'em and found 'em by sittin' on 'em.

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