326 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



so they lifted him up, and he rode home on 

 the broad back of the leader." 



There is one more story. I must not quote 

 it, because it is too long, but I cannot pass it 

 over in silence. It will be found in " Nature 

 Round London." It is the story of a trout, 

 and it has always filled me with the most 

 profound and most sincere admiration. So 

 little did Jefferies understand that he was 

 here working out a picture of the most original 

 kind, of the deepest interest, that he actually 

 divides it in two, goes off to something else, 

 and then returns to it. His inexhaustible 

 mind scattered its treasures about as lavishly 

 as Nature herself scatters abroad her flowers 

 and her seeds, and with almost as little care 

 about arrangement, selection, and grouping. 



