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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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Horace
tells
how
he
once
met
the
Doctor
driving
his
old
white
horse
in
the
town
road.
"Horace,"
called
the
Doctor,
"why
don't
you
paint
your
barn?"
"Well,"
said
Horace,
"it
is
beginning
to
look
a
bit
shabby."
"Horace,"
said
the
Doctor,
"you're
a
prominent
citizen.
We
look
to
you
to
keep
up
the
credit
of
the
neighbourhood."
Horace
painted
his
barn.
I
think
Doctor
North
was
fonder
of
Charles
Baxter
than
of
anyone
else,
save
his
sister.
He
hated
sham
and
cant:
if
a
man
had
a
single
reality
in
him
the
old
Doctor
found
it;
and
Charles
Baxter
in
many
ways
exceeds
any
man
I
ever
knew
in
the
downright
quality
of
genuineness.
The
Doctor
was
never
tired
of
telling--and
with
humour--how
he
once
went
to
Baxter
to
have
a
table
made
for
his
office.
When
he
came
to
get
it
he
found
the
table
upside
clown
and
Baxter
on
his
knees
finishing
off
the
under
part
of
the
drawer
slides.
Baxter
looked
up
and
smiled
in
the
engaging
way
he
has,
and
continued
his
work.
After
watching
him
for
some
time
the
Doctor
said:
"Baxter,
why
do
you
spend
so
much
time
on
that
table?
Who's
going
to
know
whether
or
not
the
last
touch
has
been
put
on
the
under
side
of
it?"
Baxter
straightened
up
and
looked
at
the
Doctor
in
surprise.
"Why,
I
will,"
he
said.
How
the
Doctor
loved
to
tell
that
story!
I
warrant
there
is
no
boy
who
ever
grew
up
in
this
country
who
hasn't
heard
it.
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