BILLY AND HANS 



his transmigration of souls, have had 

 some glimpses of a truth ? 



But my history is only half told, for 

 the revelation which Billy brought me 

 was completed by Hans, by the finer 

 touch of their mutual love. When I 

 found the little creature dead, and 

 laid him down in an attitude befitting 

 death, Hans came to him, and mak- 

 ing a careful and curious study of 

 him, seemed to realise that something 

 strange had come, and stretched him- 

 self out at full length on the body, 

 evidently trying to warm it into life 

 again, or feeling that something was 

 wanting which he might impart, and 

 this failing, began licking the body. 

 When he found that all this was of 

 no avail, and he seemed to realise 

 what must be strange even to us at 

 our first acquaintance with it, that 

 this was death — the last parting; 



