SHARP EYES. 



NOTING how one eye seconds and reinforces the 

 other, I have often amused myself by wondering 

 what the effect would be if one could go on opening 

 eye after eye to the number say of a dozen or more. 

 What would he see ? Perhaps not the invisible 

 not the odors of flowers or the fever germs in the air 

 not the infinitely small of the microscope or the in- 

 finitely distant of the telescope. This would require, 

 not more eyes so much as an eye constructed with 

 more and different lenses ; but would he not see with 

 augmented power within the natural limits of vision ? 

 At any rate, some persons seem to have opened more 

 eyes than others, they see with such force and distinct- 

 ness ; their vision penetrates the tangle and obscurity 

 where that of others fails like a spent or impotent 

 bullet. How many eyes did Gilbert White open? 

 how many did Henry Thoreau ? how many did Au- 

 dubon? how many does the hunter, matching his 

 sight against the keen and alert sense of a deer or 

 a moose, or a fox or a wolf ? Not outward eyes, but 

 inward. We open another eye whenever we see be- 



