Benefits have also been distributed." As I drove onward I felt as
though anything might happen
to me before I got home. I know now exactly how all old knights, all
voyageurs, all crusaders, all poets in new places, must have felt! I
looked
out at every turn of the road; and, finally, after I had grown almost
discouraged of encountering further adventure I saw a man walking in
the road ahead of me. He was much bent over, and carried on his back
a bag. When he heard me coming he stepped out of the road and
stood silent, saving every unnecessary motion, as a weary man will. He
neither looked around nor spoke, but waited
for me to go by. He was weary past expectation. I stopped the mare.
"Get in, Brother," I said; "I am going your way." He looked at
me doubtfully; then, as I moved to one side, he let his bag roll off
his back into his arms. I could see the swollen veins of his neck; his
face had the drawn look of the man who bears burdens. "Pretty heavy
for your buggy," he remarked. "Heavier for you," I replied. So he put
the bag in the back of my buggy and stepped in beside me diffidently.
"Pull up the lap robe," I said, "and
be comfortable." "Well, sir, I'm glad
of a lift," he remarked. "A bag of seed wheat is
about all a man
wants to carry for four miles."

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