Being a lamplighter
” One evening, Sir Harry Lauder, the famed Scottish humorist and comedian at the turn of the twentiteth century, told this.
He said, ” I was sitting in the gloomin’ a’ a man passed the window. He was the lamplighter. He pushed his pole into the lamp and lighted it. Then went to another and another. Now I couldn’t see him, but I knew where he was by the lights as they broke out down the street, until he had left a beautiful avenue of lights. Lauder continued, “Ye’re a’ lamplighters. They’ll know where ye’ve been by the lights ye have lit. “