The souls of the following psalms have, in the version I present, transmigrated into fairer forms than I have found them occupy elsewhere.

Fancy the rail gone, and we have neither telegraph, nor school-house, nor anything of all this but the sunset,and even that we could not be there to see in spring-time, at least, unless we could transmigrate for the time into the relinquished forms of some of these aboriginal bull-frogs, which grow to the nice size of two feet in length, destined, no doubt, to receive the souls of habitual croakers hereafter.

One has but to cast one's eyes over one's shelves to realize, as we see the familiar names, how literally the books that bear them are living men, merely transmigrated from their fleshly forms into the printed word.