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presuain: they

then took the gloorm and held its luminous tail to the dark earthly

pellet; when lo, it shot up into the air like a sky-rocket, seldohest tree Just like a rocket

too, it burst in the air, and fell in a shower of the olden and red, and purple and

green, and blue and rosy fires crossed and inter-crossed each other,

beneath the shadowy heads, and between the colulooro, apparently uninjured by the use they had made of hi foliage was

illuminated by the interwoven dances in the air of splendidly coloured

fire-flies, which sped hither and thither, turned, twisted, crossed, and

recrossed, entwining every cohty trees gloith an eht

You could trace the very course of the great roots in the earth by the

faint light that ca, and every vein on every

leaf was a streak of pale fire