thirty or forty years to outline 

 that conception, but the humble 

 dog has to unravel it for himself 

 in a few days: and yet, in the 

 eyes of a god, who should know 

 all things, would it not have the 

 same weight and the same value 

 as our own ? 



It was a question, then, of 

 studying the ground, which can 

 be scratched and dug up and 

 which sometimes reveals surpris- 

 ing things ; of casting at the sky, 

 which is uninteresting, for there 

 is nothing there to eat, one glance 



