202 AFOOT THROUGH THE 



the small change out of life; indeed, life would come 

 abruptly" to a close were not folks at hand to grease its 

 wheels with food and drinks and such like, but I am 

 not sure that the receivers of the small coin do not 

 forego the big drafts, which, coming at long intervals, 

 repay for the intervening blanks. Some prefer a per- 

 petual trickle of pleasant liquid. I like my thirst 

 appeased in occasional big draughts from foaming 

 tankards, otherwise life loses its relief and becomes an 

 unpleasantly colourless monotone. 



