A Fixture
DR. ROGER LONG, the celebrated astronomer, was walking, one dark
evening, with a gentleman in Cambridge, when the latter came to a short
post fixed in the pavement, but which, in the earnestness of
conversation, taking to be a boy standing in the path, he said hastily,
Get out of the way, boy.--That boy, said the doctor, very seriously,
is a post-boy, who never turns out of the way for anybody.