Of the general business, it's a part God keeps to Himself to see that the stars go all right, and that the sun rises and sets at the proper times.

For the time's not the same any two mornings running, you see, and he might make a mistake if he wasn't looked after, and that would be serious.

But I told you I don't understand about astronomy, because it's not my business.

I'm set to keep folk's feet off the cold and wet earth, and stones and broken glass; for however much a man may be an astronomer and look up at the sky, he must touch the earth with some part of him, and generally does so with his feet." "And God sets you to do it, Hector ?" "Yes.

It's the way He looks after people's feet.