Possible Clues:

• Pray less, possibly in fewer places
• How the sticks are populated
• Poles, see, at infrequent intervals
• Start to scatter herb (the Spanish, not the French) thinly
• With a thin or sporadic distribution
• Thinly (scattered)
• Hardly in an abundant manner
• Boxes, see, not in close-packed configuration
• Barely see, getting on boxes
• Earl's spy used infrequently