Servants for attendance on the boys were to be
brought by the masters. The payment was to be 1 pound a head per week
for all who were lodged and boarded, or boarded only, in the hotel. For
washing, and one or two other matters, an extra charge was admitted. We
have only to add that the bargain was one with which both parties, under
their respective circumstances, had reason to be satisfied; and that the
arrangement worked not more stiffly than could be expected where the
large margin of the unforeseen left so much to subsequent interpretation.
Even Dido and Hiarbas were not agreed about the precise width of a bull's-
hide. We do not, however, wish it to be inferred from this classical
parallel, that our settlers claim to have rivalled the adroitness of the
Punic queen in her dealings with the barbarian prince:
[Greek text] {12}
CHAPTER III.--TRANSFORMATIONS.
_Your snail is your only right house-builder_; _for he builds his
house out of the stuff of his own vitals_, _and therefore wherever he
travel he carries his own roof above him_.
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