Look Back on Happiness

Excerpt-"Truly you come here into the forest bringing with you life and the world and intellectual values and news. Let us talk a little. Tell me something: are you afraid your footprints will be visible tomorrow if there's fresh snow tonight?"
"That's my business. I've crossed the field before and I know many paths," he muttered. "I'll let you have the cloth for a few crowns."
I shook my head, so the man again neatly folded the cloth and put it back in the bag exactly as though it belonged to him.
"I'll cut it up into material for trousers; then the pieces won't be so large, and I'll be able to sell it."