Maybe I can sell you another pair!" "Maybe you kin," and he smiled a broad, understanding smile.
Nothing brings men together like having a joke in common.
So I walked off down the road--in the best of spirits--ready for the events of another day.
It will surely be a great adventure, one of these days, to come this way again--and to visit the Stanleys, and the Vedders, and the Minister, and drop in and sell another pair of specs to the Road-worker.

It seems to me I have a wonderfully rosy future ahead of me! P.S .-- I have not yet found out who painted the curious signs; but I am not as uneasy about it as I was.

I have seen two more of them already this morning--and find they exert quite a psychological influence..