THE TOWN. 33

 And that reminds one of the pleasure,of ima-
gination, as exemplified by the pages of a novel.
For it is recorded that a man came from his hut
"through a thicket of Spanish bayonets" The
 possible and the im-
 \ possible are not, appar-
 ently, the things with
 which a novelist need
 be, concerned.
 Over on the
 shore these
 fierce and glis-
 tening leaves
 have been ban-
 ished, and kind-
 lier weeds have
 taken their