And the Flying Mere had been such a surprise, and the fall was so far and the floor so hard, that, while Jumbo instinctively tried to bridge, his effort collapsed.

Mere consciousnesswas not that of itself a new world within the old one?

Meres was plainly a man of muddled and inaccurate learning, of no judgment, and of no critical power, a sort of Elizabethan Boswell without Boswell's virtues, and it is no paradox to say that it is this which gives his Discourse its chief interest.

"That Flying Mere was certainly a bird!" said Bobbles.

" [Footnote 4: Mere is a poetic word for lake.

, the mere keeping out of the hospital for a series of years, is not health.

But trifles look so trivial As soon as you have come, That blame is just as dear as praise And praise as mere as blame.