the meadows, the farm-yards and 

 sometimes the roads are haunted 

 by giant creatures with threaten- 

 ing horns, creatures good-natured, 

 perhaps, and, at any rate, silent, 

 creatures who allow you to sniff 

 at them a little curiously without 

 taking offence, but who keep their 

 real thoughts to themselves. It 

 was necessary to learn, as the 

 result of painful and humiliating 

 experiment, that you are not at 

 liberty to obey all nature's laws 

 without distinction in the dwell- 

 ing of the gods ; to recognize that 



