sleep. When the body is in a semi-conscious state, the mind, or that part of the mind, freed from the guidance of the judgment, which is imagination, plays fantastic tricks, like the purposeless locomotion of an animal whose brains have been extracted, or of a lively horse subject to the inconstant and irregular guidance of a sleepy driver, and is like a child blindfolded, or like the convictions of insanity. This shows that judgment goes earliest to sleep. I have dreamt that I was looking at myself, another Dromio, or Antipholus; nay, more, as two beings identically the same, with one soul pervading both. I, out of myself, would see myself with head reversed, a leg and an arm to my thighs, and a leg and an arm to my shoulders. With this conformation, walk how I would, it was always on a foot and a palm of the hand. Sometimes I walked upright, then I changed to one side, and again to the other side, but always on a foot and a hand. My movements, however, did not seem unnatural or absurd.

"But a perfect sleep entails a perfect non-exist

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ence of the active mind, or of the activity of the mind. Now sleep, as you have just said, is like death; and a perfect sleep includes a mind in perfect inaction. To what thoughts does this idea lead? What sort of mind is included in a dead body?"

To this long speech of the German's, Mr M'Donald replied by a quotation from the Scriptures:" The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." "But," he continued, "it is difficult to conceive in what state it exists apart from the body. That it exists is certain. When our Lord's dead body lay in the tomb, his spirit remained in Hades; there was no active appearance, of these separated existences. But when the body resumed its life, the spirit also resumed its energy. As is the body, so is the mind. And we are decreed, each of us, to be like our Master -He the first fruits-and rise a glorified spirit within a glorified body."

"You admit, then, a death of the mind?" said M. Wilhelm.

"As an organisation the body dies, but the matter of it is still active in chemical life. May not the analogy apply to the mind as a defunct organisation, while the essence of the mind still continues its essential spiritual character, until it be again organised in resuscitation with the body?"

But," suggested the German, "what becomes of its indestructible character, if the mind dies?" "Just what becomes of disorganised matter; it retains its essential properties. Death and annihilation are not synonymous. I understand death to be change in existence merely."

Thus the German and the Scotchman conversed until each dropped off to sleep. The thoughts suggested were an appropriate outcoming from the sacred season---the eve of Good Friday.

CHAPTER XXIV.

AGUASSAI.

THE day following our race into this village was Good Friday. Early in the morning, I arose and inquired my way to the aguaia or watering place. It was a small stream close to the village, down a deep and broad ravine, which indicated that the gentle stream sometimes assumed formidable proportions. Here the village women do their clothes-washing, and retail the simple gossip of their social world of forty houses. But this morning silence reigned supreme, for it was Viernes Santo, Holy Friday; and they must abstain from the luxury of bathing. As I believe that bodily cleanliness has some connection with the "cleanliness that is next to godliness," I took a comfortable bath, much, perhaps, to the astonishment of the little Catholic who was good enough to pioneer me to the water.

There is a church here, but no resident padre. One comes principally when sent for to visit the sick and bury the dead, but these are casualties of infrequent occurrence, when he improves the occasion by celebrating baptisms and marriages, and the Misa.

It is remarkable how these people, with few opportunities of hearing their duty, with no Bible, and few religious books, with no daily prayers, except their own private devotions, perhaps, yet seem to keep alive among them a veneration for things sacred, and endeavour, and succeed very well, to keep up those relations of mutual amity which Christianity emphatically teaches. But one misses here the noisy outburst of childish spirits on the daily dismissal of a village school, and the cheerful invitation to prayer of the Sunday bell.

Returning to the house, I overheard Mr M'Donald and M. Wilhelm in controversy. M. Wilhelm was saying:

"You religionist gentlemen do violence to the universal law of development. The quod prius