IV 



I HAD made a nice piece of dissection, a pretty 

 demonstration for a junior. 



" You did n't know a dog was put together so 

 beautifully, did you ? " said the professor, frankly 

 enjoying the sight of the marvelous system of nerves 

 laid bare by the knife. " Now, see here," he went 

 on, eyeing me keenly, "does n't a revelation like 

 that take all the moonshine about the ' beauties of 

 nature ' clean out of you ? " 



I looked at the lifeless lump upon my table, and 

 answered very deliberately : "No, it doesn't. That's 



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