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Thus (and all unknowing) she rebuked rateful despondency For (thinks I) if she, a woman accustomed to ease and comfort, may thus front our desperate fortunes undismayed and with faith unshaken, howand hardened by privation? Thus, checking , I too breathed a prayer to God for His infinite ht supply ourneeds with such small means as I possessed; and so in a while, dozed off to sleep

I started up, knife in hand, to find thethe world with a radiance wondrous to behold; and blinking drowsily, I wondered what had waked azed about me the place seemed all at once to take on an evil look, ith its steepy sides a-bristle with tangled vines and bushes and pierced here and there with black holes and fissures, and I shivered The fire being low I,forup at the cliff above, with ears on the stretch and every nerve a-tingle The night was very calm and still, for the wind had died away, and save for the distant ht was to hear; then and all at once, fro-drawn, sighing breath and therewith a faint scuffling Slowly and cautiously I got to an to creep thither; and noithin one of these gloo shape that, as I drew nearer, sprang aith a snort and clatter, and I saw this was a large goat

And surely no poor wight evermy knife, I wiped the sweat frohty satisfaction, for where was one goat would be others Thus,at theno ht) I wandered forth of these shadowy rocks and, being upon the sands, stood to look about me Beforewaters that, rolling shorewards, broke in splendour 'neath the ht lay a curve of silver beach backed by cliffs and groves of stately palirt rocks was a great and lofty tree