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-A LITTLE before noon on the sixteenth, I was walking in the Porch--it was on the left-hand side as you go out--, whenThersagoras appeared; I dare say he is known to some of you--short, hook-nosed, fair-complexioned, and virile. He drew nearer, and I spoke: 'Thersagoras the poet. Whence, and whither?' 'From home, hither,' he replied. 'Just a stroll?' I asked. 'Why, I do need a stroll too,' he said. 'I got up in the small hours, impressed with the duty of making a poetic offering onHomer's birthday.' 'Very proper,' said I; 'a good way of paying for the education he has given you.' 'That was how I began,'he continued, 'and time has glided by till now it is just upon noon; that was what I meant by saying I wanted a stroll.
+A little before noon on the sixteenth, I was walking in the Porch--it was on the left-hand side as you go out--, when Thersagoras appeared; I dare say he is known to some of you--short, hook-nosed, fair-complexioned, and virile. He drew nearer, and I spoke: 'Thersagoras the poet. Whence, and whither?' 'From home, hither,' he replied. 'Just a stroll?' I asked. 'Why, I do need a stroll too,' he said. 'I got up in the small hours, impressed with the duty of making a poetic offering onHomer's birthday.' 'Very proper,' said I; 'a good way of paying for the education he has given you.' 'That was how I began,'he continued, 'and time has glided by till now it is just upon noon; that was what I meant by saying I wanted a stroll.
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