A Day with the Sea Urchins. 25

 

Crimson and violet are the first and last colours of
the rainbow also, and if you look the next time you
blow soap bubbles, you will find that these two colours
are the first and last there too, with all the others in
between. These little folk were, as I have said, far

 

prettier than any Land Urchins I have ever seen; and
it is, after all, no such wonder that there should be
poets and artists among them, for they are Nature’s own
children, neither mother nor nurse had they ever known
save her. All their lives had been lived with her lovely
secrets around them, and they understood her lightest