Sir Charles Lyell long ago suggested that the azoic character of these ancient formations might be due to the fact that they had undergone extensive metamorphosis; and readers of the "Principles of Geology" will be familiar with the ingenious manner in which he contrasts the theory of the Gnome, who is acquainted only with the interior of the earth, with those of ordinary philosophers, who know only its exterior.

The tiny flame of a pith wick, floating in a saucer of oil, showed Heywood's gatekeeper sitting at his post, like a gnome in the gallery of a mine.

It represented Thomas the Rhymer in Fairyland, at the moment when its glamour is falling from his eyes, when its magic lustre is dying out on all that glittering pageantry and the elfin is fading to a gnome.

The other little gnome tip-toed up and joined his brother and when they had listened a while they winked at each other and quietly walked back to the beach.

The other gnome again crept up behind the large stone and listened to the lobster and the crab.

The little gnome listening behind the large stone winked at himself and smiled.

Soon the other little gnome appeared over the sand dunes carrying a large kettle, and when he got to a spot on the beach where the crab and the lobster could see and hear him he began shouting in a sing-song manner: "Old clothes changed to new!

[Illustration] The little gnome with the large kettle sat upon the beach and pretended he did not see the crab and lobster, but continued crying: "Old coats changed to new!

When the crab and the lobster came up quite near the little gnome pulled a number of pieces of colored cloth from his pocket and placed them upon the sand.

"Do you wish your coats changed in color?" asked the little gnome.

"Well, I am glad to have your company," said the little gnome as he took a piece of scarlet cloth and laid it over the lobster's back.

The little gnome placed the scarlet piece of cloth over the crab's back.

the little gnome added, pinching himself to keep from laughing.

"You will find the color a great deal warmer," said the little gnome.

So the little gnome gathered an armful of drift-wood and built a fire.

cried the lobster and the crab, as the little gnome placed the kettle over the fire.

"It's funny," one little gnome said drowsily, "how one sometimes will become dissatisfied with the way he was made by Mother Nature and try to improve upon her work!

" "Yes, that is true," the other little gnome replied, "We should be satisfied and contented just as we are!"

the little gnome said, stroking his fat stomach.

The story of the lowly gnome; When the sea king's daughter came out of the sea; How the red rose came to be red.

A gnome there was.

The story of the lowly gnome; When the sea king's daughter came out of the sea; How the red rose came to be red.

Port Saïd has undoubtedly improved, but still it is not a nice place, and we were unfeignedly glad to repair on board the Marie Valerie as soon as we noted the cessation of the black coaly cloud, through the murkiness of which a chattering stream of gnome-like figures passed their burthens of "Cardiff" into the bowels of the ship.

I noticed, however, that the head chewed a straw and spat, which I deemed a gnome would not dothough wherefore straws and spitting are not free to gnomes I do not know and could not have told.

Drab habitation of whom? Tabernacle or tomb, Or dome of worm, Or porch of gnome, Or some elf's catacomb?