mouse into an elephant, you would develop
an elephant into a mouse !" But here we plunged into a tunnel, and I leaned back and closed my eyes for a moment, trying to recall a few of the incidents of my recent dream.
"I thought I saw——" I murmured sleepily : and then the phrase insisted on conjugating itself, and ran into "you thought you saw——he thought he saw——" and then it suddenly went off into a song :——
"He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practised on a fife :
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
’At length I realise! he said,
’The bitterness of Life !’"
And what a wild being it was who sang
these wild words ! A Gardener he seemed to
be——yet surely a mad one, by the way he
brandished his rake——madder, by the way he
broke, ever and anon, into a frantic jig——maddest
of all, by the shriek in which he
brought out the last words of the stanza !
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