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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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After
tying
and
blanketing
his
horse
and
taking
a
black
satchel
from
his
buggy
he
led
me
up
to
my
house.
I
had
a
pleasurable
sense
of
excitement
and
adventure.
Here
was
a
new
character
come
to
my
farm.
Who
knows,
I
thought,
what
he
may
bring
with
him:
who
knows
what
I
may
send
away
by
him?
Here
in
the
country
we
must
set
our
little
ships
afloat
on
small
streams,
hoping
that
somehow,
some
day,
they
will
reach
the
sea.
It
was
interesting
to
see
the
busy
young
man
sit
down
so
confidently
in
our
best
chair.
He
said
his
name
was
Dixon,
and
he
took
out
from
his
satchel
a
book
with
a
fine
showy
cover.
He
said
it
was
called
"Living
Selections
from
Poet,
Sage
and
Humourist."
"This,"
he
told
me,
"is
only
the
first
of
the
series.
We
publish
six
volumes
full
of
literchoor.
You
see
what
a
heavy
book
this
is?"
I
tested
it
in
my
hand:
it
was
a
heavy
book.
"The
entire
set,"
he
said,
"weighs
over
ten
pounds.
There
are
1,162
pages,
enough
paper
if
laid
down
flat,
end
to
end,
to
reach
half
a
mile."
I
cannot
quote
his
exact
language:
there
was
too
much
of
it,
but
he
made
an
impressive
showing
of
the
amount
of
literature
that
could
be
had
at
a
very
low
price
per
pound.
Mr.
Dixon
was
a
hypnotist.
He
fixed
me
with
his
glittering
eye,
and
he
talked
so
fast,
and
his
ideas
upon
the
subject
were
so
original
that
he
held
me
spellbound.
At
first
I
was
inclined
to
be
provoked:
one
does
not
like
to
be
forcibly
hypnotised,
but
gradually
the
situation
began
to
amuse
me,
the
more
so
when
Harriet
came
in.
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