Green Grapes 59

to kick it... .. Ah! it is no use my
trying.” The last words came most sadly,
for she had essayed the feat and failed
egregiously, being of those who cannot
with ease be ungraceful.

“T don't think I will try,” said the
Visitor, reluctantly. ‘You see I have
reached the uninteresting stage, and it is
not well to try new things then.”

‘But indeed you have not!” Doris pro-
tested. ‘You don’t even take pickles at
lunch. I watched: and that is the sign.

Do you know, I am very much
troubled about the tambourine. I cannot
do it, and I want to, ever so badly. I
always do want to do things I cannot
doi:

“But you ought to think yourself very
lucky,” said the Visitor. ‘‘ The best things
in the world are those we cannot do,
and keep on desiring to do, those that we
always want and can never get.”

Doris was quite impolitely amazed and
incredulous. ‘“ Well!” she said.