After We Got Started Jone Seemed To Like It Very Well, And We Went
Pretty Much All Over The Town, Sometimes Stopping To Look In At The
Shop Windows, For The Sidewalks Are So Narrow That It Is No Trouble To
See The Things From The Street.
Then the men took us a little way out
of the town to a place where there was a good view for us, and a bench
where they could go and sit down and rest.
I expect all the chair men
that work by the hour manage to get to this place with a view as soon
as they can.
After they had had a good rest we started off to go home by a different
route. Jone's man was a good strong fellow and always took the lead,
but my puller was a different kind of a steed, and sometimes I was left
pretty far behind. I had not paid much attention to the man at first,
only noticing that he was mighty slow; but going back a good deal of
the way was uphill, and then all his imperfections came out plain, and
I couldn't help studying him. If he had been a horse I should have said
he was spavined and foundered, with split frogs and tonsilitis; but as
he was a man, it struck me that he must have had several different
kinds of rheumatism and been sent to Buxton to have them cured, but not
taking the baths properly, or drinking the water at times when he ought
not to have done it, his rheumatisms had all run together and had
become fixed and immovable.
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