Name the title of the work that the following quote comes fr…
Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: The business intrusted to this fellow was the making of bricks—so I hadbeen informed; but there wasn’t a fragment of a brick anywhere in the station, andhe had been there more than a year—waiting. It seems he could not make brickswithout something, I don’t know what—straw maybe. Anyway, it could not be foundthere and as it was not likely to be sent from Europe, it did not appear clear to mewhat he was waiting for. An act of special creation perhaps. However, they were allwaiting—all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them—for something; and upon myword it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, thoughthe only thing that ever came to them was disease—as far as I could see.
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