By George! I had to explain to him what it was.

Then he said nobody in the country could read or write but a few dozen priests.

Land! think of that.
There was another thing that troubled me a little.

Those multitudes presently began to agitate for another miracle.

That was natural.
To be able to carry back to their far homes the boast that they had seen the man who could command the sun, riding in the heavens, and be obeyed, would make them great in the eyes of their neighbors, and envied by them all; but to be able to also say they had seen him work a miracle themselves--why, people would come a distance to see _them_.