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can understand it,' said Dan.

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that a person can see with his mental sight—' That is, with his eyes shut,' interrupted Joshua jocularly.

'Certainly, with his eyes shut,' said Dan very decidedly. Our eyes are shut when we dream, yet we see things.' (Joshua became serious immediately; the answer was a convincing one.) 'And that proves that we have two senses of sight-one in the eyes, the other in the mind. Haven't you seen rings, and circles, and clouds when you are in bed at night, and before you go to sleep? I can press my face on the pillow and say-not out loud, and yet I say it and can hear it which shows that all our senses are double.' (In his eagerness to explain what he could scarcely comprehend, Dan was in danger of falling into the same error as the author of the Triumph of Mind over Matter had fallen into, that of flying off at tangents: it was with difficulty he could keep to his subject.) 'Well, Jo, I press my head into the pillow, and say, "I will see rings," and presently I see a little ball, black, perhaps, and it grows and grows into rings --like what you see when you throw a stone in

the water-larger and larger, all the different colours of the rainbow; and then, when they have grown so large as to appear to have lost themselves in space-just like the rings in the water, Jo-another little ball shapes itself in the dark, and gradually becomes visible, and then the rings come and grow and disappear as the others did. When I have seen enough, I say-not out loud again, Jo, but silently as. I did before-"I don't want to see any more," and they don't come again. What I can do with rings, I can do with clouds. I say, "I will see clouds," and they come, all colours of blue, from white-blue to black-blue; sometimes I see sunsets.'

'I have seen them too, Dan,' said Joshua; 'I have seen skies with stars in them, just as I have seen them with my eyes wide open.'

'Now, if we can do this,' continued Dan, 'why cannot we do more ?'

'We can't do what he says in this book,' said Joshua, drumming with his fingers on the Philosophy of Dreams.

'I don't know. Why should he write all that unless he knew something? There is no harm in trying, at all events. Let me see. Here is a chart of a head, Jo' (turning to a diagram in

the book). Where is combativeness? O, here, at the back of the head, behind the ear. Can you feel it, Jo? Is it a large bump? No; you are going too high up, I am sure. Now you are too much in the middle. Ah! that's the place, I think.'

These last sentences referred to Joshua's attempt to find Dan's organ of combativeness.

'I don't feel anything particular, Dan,' he said.

'But you feel something, don't you, Jo?' asked Dan anxiously. There is a bump there, isn't there ?'

'A very little one,' answered Joshua, earnestly manipulating Dan's head, and pressing the bump. 'Do you feel spiteful?'

'No,' said Dan, laughing.

There's a bump twice as large just above your fighting one.'

What is that bump?' said Dan, examining the diagram again. Ah! that must be adhesiveness.'

'I don't know what that means.'

'Give me the dictionary;' and Dan with eager fingers turned over the pages of an old Walker's

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Dictionary. Adhesive-sticking, tenacious,"

he read.

'That is, that I stick to a thing, as I mean to do to this. Now I'll tell you what we'll do, Jo. I shall sleep at your house to-morrow night, and when I am asleep, you shall press my organ of combativeness-put your fingers on it— yes, there; and when I wake I will tell you what I have dreamt of.'

All right,' said Joshua, removing his fingers.
'You will be able to find the place again ?'
Yes, Dan.'

'And you will be sure to keep awake ?'
'Sure, Dan.'

The following night, Joshua waited very patiently until Dan was asleep. He had to wait a long time; for Dan, in consequence of his anxiety, was longer than usual getting to sleep. Once or twice Joshua thought that his friend was in the Land of Nod, and he commenced operations, but he was interrupted by Dan saying drowsily, 'I am not asleep yet, Jo.' At length Dan really went off, and then Joshua, very quietly and with great care, felt for Dan's organ of combativeness, and pressed it. Joshua looked at his sleeping friend with anxiety. 'Perhaps he will hit out at me,' he thought. But Dan lay perfectly still, and

Joshua, after waiting and watching in vain for