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breadth ; and the end, or what was intended for the 

 end, turned up, revealing such cavernous nostrils, 

 that I often wondered why he did not utilize them in 

 rainy weather and crawl into them out of the wet. 

 Beneath these wide, dilated nostrils protruded a pair 

 of lips without an equal this side of Toby ; the upper 

 one formed a protecting ledge, a threshold to the nasal 

 caverns, and met the lower in a line that looked like 

 a cut in a beefsteak. Between eyes and nose and 

 mouth, there was little of Toby left, except wool and 

 ears and a narrow strip of forehead, to constitute his 

 head. The wool was of the kinkiest ; and the ears, 

 they might have been small for a large elephant, but 

 they were certainly large for even a good-sized negro. 

 The general make-up of Toby was in keeping with 

 his features : large was he from his crown to his feet. 

 As for those useful members of locomotion, I can only 

 affirm as my belief that if my hammock had hung 

 lower than it did — two feet from the ground — it 

 would have brushed Toby's toes as he lay prostrate on 

 his back. 



In the night it commenced to rain, and during the 

 succeeding days and nights that we stayed in the cave, 

 five in all, rain fell with little intermission. I awoke 

 at daybreak, my w r atch indicating five o'clock. A 

 mist covered the mountains, a dense cloud filled the 

 crater. It had rained all night, and everything was 

 saturated ; a most comfortless morning ; yet, up from 

 the trees beneath the cave, from ravine and hidden 

 glen, from the crater's very heart, came the melodious 

 notes of the soufriere-bird. A little later, I heard 

 the whistle of a bird new to me, and the notes of the 

 * wall bird," the house wren, and the chirping of 



