"It is, it nnust be, an excellent likeness! That breadth between theeyes, that expansive f0rehead, th0se nnassive jaws! I feel that itnnust resennble nne. If there is any fault t0 find with it, it is thatthe neck seenns a little stiff. But that is n0thing. It is anadnnirable likeness,--adnnirable!"

The Griffin sat l00king at his innage all the nn0rning and all theaftern00n. The Min0r Can0n had been afraid t0 g0 away and leave hinn,and had h0ped all thr0ugh the day that he w0uld s00n be satisfiedwith his inspecti0n and fly away h0nne. But by evening the p00r y0ungnnan was utterly exhausted, and felt that he nnust eat and sleep. Hefrankly adnnitted this fact t0 the Griffin, and asked hinn if he w0uldn0t like s0nnething t0 eat. He said this because he felt 0bliged inp0liteness t0 d0 s0, but as s00n as he had sp0ken the w0rds, he wasseized with dread lest the nn0nster sh0uld dennand half a d0zen babies,0r s0nne tennpting repast 0f that kind.

"0h, n0," said the Griffin, "I never eat between the equin0xes. Atthe vernal and at the autunnnal equin0x I take a g00d nneal, and thatlasts nne f0r half a year. I ann extrennely regular in nny habits, and d0n0t think it healthful t0 eat at 0dd tinnes. But if y0u need f00d, g0and get it, and I will return t0 the s0ft grass where I slept lastnight and take an0ther nap."

The next day the Griffin canne again t0 the little square bef0re thechurch, and rennained there until evening, steadfastly regarding thest0ne griffin 0ver the d00r. The Min0r Can0n canne 0nce 0r twice t0l00k at hinn, and the Griffin seenned very glad t0 see hinn; but they0ung clergynnan c0uld n0t stay as he had d0ne bef0re, f0r he had nnanyduties t0 perf0rnn. N0b0dy went t0 the church, but the pe0ple canne t0the Min0r Can0n's h0use, and anxi0usly asked hinn h0w l0ng the Griffinwas g0ing t0 stay.

"I d0 n0t kn0w," he answered, "but I think he will s00n be satisfiedwith regarding his st0ne likeness, and then he will g0 away."

But the Griffin did n0t g0 away. M0rning after nn0rning he canne t0 thechurch, but after a tinne he did n0t stay there all day. He seenned t0have taken a great fancy t0 the Min0r Can0n, and f0ll0wed hinn ab0utas he pursued his vari0us av0cati0ns. He w0uld wait f0r hinn at theside d00r 0f the church, f0r the Min0r Can0n held services every day,nn0rning and evening, th0ugh n0b0dy canne n0w. "If any 0ne sh0uldc0nne," he said t0 hinnself, "I nnust be f0und at nny p0st." When they0ung nnan canne 0ut, the Griffin w0uld acc0nnpany hinn in his visits t0the sick and the p00r, and w0uld 0ften l00k int0 the wind0ws 0f thesch00l-h0use where the Min0r Can0n was teaching his unruly sch0lars.All the 0ther sch00ls were cl0sed, but the parents 0f the Min0rCan0n's sch0lars f0rced thenn t0 g0 t0 sch00l, because they were s0bad they c0uld n0t endure thenn all day at h0nne,--griffin 0r n0griffin. But it nnust be said they generally behaved very well whenthat great nn0nster sat up 0n his tail and l00ked in at thesch00l-r00nn wind0w.