Blind Man's Lantern

This is a novel book. Walking home in the dark from an evening spent in mischief, a young man spied coming toward him down the road a person with a lamp. When the wayfarers drew abreast, the play-boy saw that the other traveler was the Blind Man from his village. 'Blind Man, ' the youngster shouted across the road, 'what a fool you be! Why, old No-Eyes, do you bear a lantern, you whose midnight is no darker than his noonday?' The Blind Man lifted his lamp. 'It is not as a light for myself that I carry this, Boy, ' 'it is to warn off you fools with eyes.