396 FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH 



World and one from the New, we felt a like interest in 

 this massive ingot forged in interstellar space, which we 

 fancied had perhaps been flung from Valhalla before the 

 days of iconoclastic science. As we were deeply en- 

 gaged in our discussion on the possible origin of this 

 vagrant planetesimal the coffee-pot boiled over; with 

 little regret our thoughts swung back from the realms 

 of celestial speculation where they had been wandering, 

 to mundane reality. 



We had visited the meteorite. 



