THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER. Lj

you see the more you think. So the sitting
magistrate of the occasion drew in his horns, and
retired into his shell.

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It was one of those very hot days of the early
year which occasionally take all nature by surprise.
On the southern side of the grassy slope which
led up to the ruined castle overlooking the sea,
the sunshine lay in an unbroken sheet of light.
he north-eastern bank was steeper and had more
shadows. Gorse and bramble-bushes and ferns
and primroses and orchis plants grew there, and it
was there the inquiry on the dead moth’s body
was being held.

Humanly speaking, indeed, not a sound broke
the stillness of the summer air, save the lazy
plashing of waves on the sand at the foot of the
cliff, or the cawing or twittering of a passing bird.
But this humanly speaking only. Human ears,
whatever human beings may think of them, take
in but a few octaves of the great gamut of the
universe. To all below and above these, they are