to have his boots cleaned with patent blacking, and the clerk could

only afford ordinary grease; and upon that point they split. One spoke

of stinginess, the other of vanity, and the blacking became the

black cause of enmity between them, and at last they parted.

This is what he demanded of the world in general, namely, patent

blacking, and he got nothing but grease. Accordingly, he at last

drew back from all men, and became a hermit; but the church tower is

the only place in a great city where hermitage, office and bread can