86 The Story of Scraggles 



as men reckon time, but time really has 

 very little to do with life. 



"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not 



breaths ; 



In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 

 We should count time by heart-throbs. He most 



lives, 

 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the 



best." 



So in the short three months you 

 were with me we lived your lifetime to- 

 gether ; and though my life is stretching 

 out into further time, and your body is 

 buried, you, dear little Scraggles, still 

 live on with me. I don't know, and 

 I care less, what the psychologists say 

 about birds having souls, and I am 

 equally indifferent as to what the theo- 

 logians say of there being a heaven for 

 birds, or birds entering the heaven of 



