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He had always been fond of children, and the little ones in the Amalekite family quickly discovered this, and crowded around their blind friend, who played all sorts of gaed eyes, over which spread a broad shade of green leaves, could make whistles with his skilful artist hands froht

He saw before hi as distinctly as if he need only stretch out his hand to draw it nearer, and perhaps--surely and certainly, the Amalekite said--the time would come when he would behold it also with his bodily eyes

If the longing should be fulfilled! If his eyes were again permitted to convey to hiht! Yes, beauty--was entitled to a higher place than truth, and if it again unfolded itself to his gaze, how gladly and gratefully he would pay hoht enjoy it once hter, and one day, when his skilful nurse again took the bandage fro appear, as if through, a mist It was only the thorny acacia tree at his tent; but the sight of the s never filled hiratitude

Then he ordered the less valuable of his two rings to be sold to offer a sacrifice to health-bestowing Isis, who had a little tereat Apollo, the foe of darkness and the lord of everything light and pure! How yearningly he besought Aphrodite to bless hiain with the enjoyment of eternal beauty, and Eros to heal the wound which his arrow had inflicted upon his heart and Daphne's, and bring theether after so much distress and need!

When, after the lapse of another week, the bandage was again removed, his in ereen surface of the Red Sea, and the outlines of the pal-eared goats

How ardently he thanked the gracious deities who, in spite of Straton's precepts, were no ination and, as if he had beco heart with ratitude to his an to stir within more ceaselessly than ever before Already he saw clay and wax assuined hiures fro, shaping theold and ivory