96°. A Day with the Sea Urchins.
Twilight’s dewy fragrance
_ Closes round us fast ;
All so sweet and peaceful,

Tells that day is past!
All so sweet and peaceful, etc.”

By the time this song was finished the cave was
reached, and the sea-horses were unbridled and set free ©
to roam about as they liked. In a few minutes the
Urchins had disappeared, and with the echo of their
sweet bell-like voices in my ears I fell asleep imme- _
diately on reaching the shore. When'I awoke it was
morning again, and I found myself still stretched on.
the short turf of the cliff, with the full tide flowing
beneath me. Could I have slept there all night, I
thought, after my long day spent with the Sea
Urchins? ‘I did not remember scrambling up the
rocks to the cliff again, but then I had been so very
sleepy. Had I dreamt it all, I wondered? I could
‘not tell; I cannot tell to this day. But this I know—
that I saw all I have told. you, just as it is set down
here, with my own eyes. So you will agree with me
that the Sea Urchins must really have been there,
and here are the pictures of all I saw them. doing,
and the songs I heard them sing, which will be proof |
enough to all sensible people.

~ And whenever I walk inland on the moor above the
river, I dream it all over again; and whenever I come