What is that as high as the highest tree,
But the sun never shines on it?
Answer. The pith.
What goes from the fell to the shore
And does not move?
Answer. A fence.
These country-people are not deficient in proverbs—e.g.,
Another man’s steed
Has always speed.
Much of what they said was spoken in an outlandish dialect, and what made it worse, when I asked for an explanation, they all cried out together, like the boys in a Government school in India. Indeed, when they were once fairly afloat it was difficult to curb the general excitement.