The Crock of Gold

minutely as to the appearance of Pan, how he had received them, and what he had said in defence of his

r virtue, that a husband would go any length to asperse his wife's reputation, and that although she was married to a fool her self-respect had survived even that calamity. The Philosopher pointed out that her age, her appearance, and her tongue were sufficient guarantees of immunity

hat he would lay the case before Angus Og and implore his protection and assistance on behalf of the Clann MacMurr

nd early on the following morning the Philosopher swung

s, so that he passed by the yew tree without any stay. In a short time he came to the rough, heather-clumped field wherein the children had found Pan, and as he was proceeding up the hill, he saw Caitilin Ni Murrachu walking a little way in front with a small vessel in her hand. The she-goat which she had just milked was bending again to the herbage, and as Caitilin trod lightly in front of him the Philosopher closed his eyes in virtuous anger and opened t

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tensifying as against an exuberant effect. With clothing the whole environment is immediately affected. The air, which is our proper medium, is only filtered to our bodies in an abated and niggardly fashion which can scarcely be as beneficial as the generous and unintermitted elemental play. The question naturally arises whether clothing is as unknown to nature as we have fancied? Viewed as a protective measure against atmospheric rigour we find that many creatures grow, by their own central impulse, some kind of exterior panoply which may be regarded as their proper clothing. Bears, cats, dogs, mice, sheep and beavers are wrapped in fur, hair, fell, fleece or pelt, so these creatures cannot by any mean

t courtesy to these Remarks, he

is the performance o

he statement far a mom

then, is vi

, "to neglect the perform

nted, "philosophy has up to the

suggests a standard of practice impossible of being followed, and whic

her, with some indignation, "has animat

so that they have conceived virtue as repression and self-sacri

nteresting, and if it is true the whole conduct

e born and to die, and in the interval to eat and dr

materialism," crie

say 'but'?"

eemed animalism," c

ou please to call

nothing," the Phi

sensed requir

r. "You leave out brains. I believe in mind above

aid Pan, and he reach

assage and thrust Caitilin aside. "Hussy,"

hear the pipes of Pan, calling and sobb