io8 S/. Kildafrom Without. 



But the wind roused itself to blow freshly from the 

 South-east, the one quarter to which the bay and 

 landing-place are hopelessly exposed, and St. Kilda 

 is still the Garden of the Hesperides of boyish 

 dreams the inaccessible, enchanted island where the 

 reckless fowler let go his rope as he gathered eggs in 

 the recess into which he had swung himself under 

 the over-hanging rock halfway down the cliff, and 

 nerved himself to spring six feet over eternity and 

 catch it as it swung loose in the wind ; where the 

 father, when he saw the rope, on which he hung 

 below his boy, chafing against the sharp edge of the 

 rock above, and no longer strong enough to carry 

 both, drew his knife, and cut his own weight off to 

 save his boy ; where the miracle of the feeding of the 

 Israelites in the desert, and Elijah by the Brook 

 Cherith, is still every year renewed, and the meat of 

 the people brought on the wings of birds, at the 

 ordering of the God of Nature, who teaches "the 

 Stork in the Heaven to know her appointed season," 

 and Fulmars and Gannets, as well as " the Turtle, the 

 Crane, and the Swallow, to observe the time of their 

 coming," 



