The Gate Post Answer
- Passage creeps up
At the Sallow Cross bank a girl with a patched coat tugged at an old lamplighter’s sleeve and asked why the Lantern looked so small up there. Ansel Crake, who had caught light on the hills for forty years, didn’t look up. He said it was the same size it had always been, only further off, and that she should be glad she was still standing under it to ask.