After that he asked his way by showing his paper. Most people were kindly. Sometimes he got a lift on a wagon, but he walked ten miles for every one he rode. He avoided towns when he could. He let his beard grow, and washed his socks and feet every day but did not change his clothes. When his bread and sausage gave out he knocked on the back doors of farmhouses and begged food by gestures, an open mouth, bunched fingers.
