EARS FOR BEASTS ONLY 



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sity of material form and fashion. It is like the 

 telegraph wire overhead, the commonest and plainest 

 of material things, but charged with the silent and 

 invisible currents of the life of the world. 



" Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery 

 explore." 



Birds have no ears, nor have crocodiles, nor 

 frogs, nor 

 snakes. 

 Ears seem 

 to be for 

 beasts only. 

 And not 

 for all 

 beasts. 

 Seals are 

 divided by 

 naturalists 

 into two 



great fami- 

 lies — those 

 with ears, 

 and those 

 without . 

 The com- 

 mon seal belongs to the latter class, and the sea- 

 lion to the former. A common seal lives in the sea, 

 and when it does wriggle up on the beach of an 

 iceberg there is nothing to hear, I suppose, or 

 perhaps when it wants to listen it raises a nipper 



OR PERHAPS WHEN IT WANTS TO LISTEN IT RAISES 

 A FLIPPER TO ITS EAR. 



