Let me see whether you have travelled without edification." I then questioned him about the places which he had mentioned, and found he knew a great deal about them, amongst other things he described Cleopatra's needle, and the At Maidan at Constantinople with surprising exactness.
"You put me out," said I; "you consider yourself inferior to that droving fellow Bos, and to have travelled without edification, whereas you know a thousand times more than he, and indeed much more than many a person who makes his five hundred a year by going about lecturing on foreign places, but as I am no flatterer I will tell you that you have a fault which will always prevent your rising in this world, you have modesty; those who have modesty shall have no advancement, whilst those who can blow their own horn lustily, shall be made governors.

But allow me to ask you in what capacity you went abroad ?" "As engineer to various steamships," said Pritchard.
"A director of the power of steam," said I, "and an explorer of the wonders of Iscander's city willing to hold the candle to Mr Bos.

I will tell you what, you are too good for this world, let us hope you will have your reward in the next." I breakfasted and asked for my bill; the bill amounted to little or nothing--half-a-crown I think for tea-dinner, sundry jugs of ale, bed and breakfast.

I defrayed it, and then inquired whether it would be possible for me to see the inside of the church.
"Oh yes," said Pritchard.

"I can let you in, for I am churchwarden and have the key." The church was a little edifice of some antiquity, with a little wing and without a spire; it was situated amidst a grove of trees.