158 THUNDERBOLTS 



be a thousand years more, in all probability, before the last 

 thunderbolt ceases to be shown as a curiosity here and 

 there to marvelling visitors, and takes its proper place in 

 some village museum as a belemnite, a meteoric stone, or 

 a polished axe-head of our neolithic ancestors. Even then, 

 no doubt, the original bolt will still survive as a recognised 

 property in the stock-in-trade of every well-equipped poet. 



