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Mr. Pratt, I think, laughed and said he thought Duncan would he 

 able to furnish a few shells after awhile. He had just begun then to 

 go out with Mr. Pratt hunting shells. 



But who would have thought then (unless it might have been the 

 dream or hope of a fond mother), that he would have furnished such 

 a number, not of rough boulders, but finely hewed, polished, living, 

 speaking, stones to this scientific monument of ours, planned in his 

 own brain, prepared and built in with his own hands, written and 

 printed documents with his own press, and sent them out to be seen 

 and read of all men, in all lands. 



This part of his work is finished, and well done it is; and I, though 

 older, still a tyro, would like to throw this, my little rough boulder, 

 on the cairn we are this evening raising to the memory of him who 

 no longer visibly presides over our meetings. 



"Ach, Gott!" as Carlyle says, "What a mystery is life?" There 

 is no death! 



" The dust we tread, 

 Shall change beneath the summer showers 



To golden grain and mellow fruit. 

 Or rainbow-tinted flowers." 



In fact, so much of his life is inseparable from the surroundings 

 here, we feel, with Longfellow, that 



" His presence fills this room to-night, 

 A form of mingled mist and light 



From that far coast. 

 Welcome beneath this roof of mine, 

 Welcome ! this vacant chair is thine. 

 Dear guest and ghost." 



And could, if we had ears fine enough, hear him tell us in the lan- 

 guage of the author, of "• The Light of Asia,'''' speaking of his frail 

 body: 



" 'Tis a hut which I am quitting, ■ 



'Tis a garment no more fitting, 



'Tis a cage from which, at last, 



Like a bird, my soul has passed. 



Love the inmate, not the room, 



The wearer, not the garb ; the plume 



Of the eagle, not the bars 



That kept him from those splendid stars ! " 



If we live in deeds, /tot vears; in thoughts, not breaths; in feel- 

 ings, /tot in figures on a dial; if he lives most who thinks most, feels 



