TWILIGHT LAND

At last they came to a great wide plain, where, far or .
near, nothing was to be seen but bare sand, without so
“much as a pebble or a single blade of grass, and there
night caught up with them.

“Dear, dear, but I am hungry!” said Babo.

“So am J,” said Simon Agricola. “Let’s sit down
here and eat.”

So down they sat, and Simon Agricola opened his
pouch and drew forth the stone.

The stone? It was a stone no longer, but a fine loat
of white bread as big as your two fists. Youshould have
seen Babo goggle and stare! ‘Give me a piece of your
bread, master,” said he.

“Not I,” said Agricola) “You might have had a
dozen of the same kind, had you chosen to do as I bade
you and to fetch them along with you. ‘Borna fool, live
a fool, die a fool,’” said he; and that was all that Babo
got for his supper. As for the wise man, he finished his
loaf of bread to the last crumb, and then went to sleep
with a full stomach and a contented mind.

The next morning off they started again bright and
early, and before long they came to just such another field
of stones as they left behind them the day before.

‘“Come, master,” said Babo, “let us each take a stone
with us. We may need something more to eat before the’
day is over.”

‘‘No,”.said Simon Agricola; “we will need no stones
to-day.”

But Babo had no notion to go hungry the second time,
so he hunted around till he found a stone as big as his
head. All day he carried it, first under one arm and then
under the other. The wise man stepped along briskly

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