22 MEMORY. 



a particular shape and appearance, that the berry 

 is produced from the centre of the blossom, that 

 it begins by being hard, green, and sour, and 

 grows soft, red, sweet, and luscious as it gradually 

 ripens. Most of us can readily recall at once the 

 look and taste of the strawberry, its size and 

 shape, its color without and within, the little 

 green " hull," or " hank," formed by the calyx, 

 and the tiny brown seeds dotted in pits over its 

 whole rosy surface. Here is a vast collection of 

 facts, easily remembered by almost everybody, 

 about a single small English fruit. If we take a 

 bigger object, such as an elephant, the range of 

 memory in the same way is still more marvellous. 

 At once we have conjured up before our mind's 

 e3'^e the i)icture of that vast, unwieldy animal, of 

 his head and trunk, his huge lopping ears, his 

 mouth and tusks, his big legs and crushing feet, 

 his thick skin, his sleepy eyes, his stumpy tail, his 

 queer gait, his cunning manners. If we try to 

 think of all the facts we know about him other- 

 wise, his native home, the mode in which he is 

 hunted, the importance of his ivory, the objects 

 made from it, his use as a beast of burden, the 

 " castles " or howdahs which he carries on his 

 back, his appearance at the Zoo or in the travel- 

 ling wild-beast show, and so forth throughout a 

 hundred like particulars, it is fairly astonishing 

 how wide a range of facts every child or fool pos- 



