The people lined up from front to back to see the wondrous sight. But when he stepped out, it was only a man. “But what a wondrous man!” They told themselves with the deflating feeling of disappointment. And, when everything had settled down, he slept just like a man.

to far apart

They journeyed hard, they journeyed long, at every stop they rang a gong. The gong meant this: to journey far is a great reward. To come back with wound and mar is better than sleeping in. And so they walked, and gasped and trotted, all the way from here to far apart.