but I think if the anatomists tried they might 

 find the rudiments of a third, a night eye, behind 

 the other two. From my boyhood I certainly 

 have seen more things at night than the bright- 

 est day ever knew of. If our eyes were intended 

 for day use, our other senses seem to work best 

 by night. Do we not take the deepest impres- 

 sions when the plates of these sharpened senses 

 are exposed in the dark? Even in moonlight 

 our eyes are blundering things ; but our hearing, 

 smell, and touch are so quickened by the alert- 

 ness of night that, with a little training, the 

 imagination quite takes the place of sight a 

 new sense, swift and vivid, that adds an excite- 

 ment and freshness to the pleasure of out-of- 

 door study, impossible to get through our two 

 straightforward, honest day eyes. 



Albeit, let us stay at home and sleep when 

 there is no moon ; and even when she climbs up 

 big and round and bright, there is no surety of 

 a fruitful excursion before the frosts fall. In 

 the summer the animals are worn with home 

 cares and doubly wary for their young ; the grass 

 is high, the trees dark, and the yielding green is 

 silent under even so clumsy a crawler as the box- 

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