monial. Nowhere can one go to sleep more easily than
in a church."

"Do you know," said the Thin Woman, "that a Lep-
recaun came here to-day?"

"I do not," said the Philosopher, "and notwithstand-
ing the innumerable centuries which have elapsed since
that first sleeper (probably with extreme difficulty) sank
into his religious trance, we can to-day sleep through a
religious ceremony with an ease which would have been
a source of wealth and fame to that prehistoric wor-
shipper and his acolytes."

"Are you going to listen to what I am telling you about
the Leprecaun?" said the Thin Woman.

"I am not," said the Philosopher. "It has been sug-
gested that we go to sleep at night because it is then too
dark to do anything else; but owls, who are a venerably
sagacious folk, do not sleep in the night time. Bats, also,
are a very clear-minded race; they sleep in the broadest
day, and they do it in a charming manner. They clutch
the branch of a tree with their toes and hang head down-
wards--a position which I consider singularly happy, for
the rush of blood to the head consequent on this inverted
position should engender a drowsiness and a certain im-
becility of mind which must either sleep or explode."

"Will you never be done talking?" shouted the Thin