Village books

I go into the garden and gather a few peascods for seed till the
horses should come up. Then Cook, the shepherd, says that a fire
has sprung up on the other side of the river. Who could have lit
it? Probably someone who had intended coming to my place on the
preceding evening and has missed his way, for there is no track
of any sort between here and Phillips's. In a quarter of an hour
he lit another fire lower down, and by that time, the horses
having come up, Haast and myself--remembering how Dr. Sinclair
had just been drowned so near the same spot--think it safer to
ride over to him and put him across the river. The river was
very low and so clear that we could see every stone. On getting
to the river-bed we lit a fire and did the same on leaving it;
our tracks would guide anyone over the intervening ground.
Besides his occupation with the sheep, he found time to play the
piano, to read and to write. In the library of St. John's College,
Cambridge, are two copies of the Greek Testament, very fully
annotated by him at the University and in the colony.


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