soon pass away, and be dissolved by the noon-tide heat.

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"And what, then," exclaimed I, “will become of these men, when all these illusions have faded away for ever?" "Many," replied my friend, looking forward with joy unto that hour, for then they will have an entrance given unto them to the golden city, where they will find the full substance of those things of which they have now but the dim and imperfect reflection, for they have set their affections on the things that are above, and taken these shadows only as types of the true and enduring; but for those who have made them their all, who have spent their life, and exhausted their energy, in the vain chase, and who have no right to enter the golden city-who can tell what misery will be theirs at that hour?"

"Let us leave this place before that fearful time arrives," said I, and with the desire to go, I awoke from sleep.

NOVEMBER.

HOW SIR TRISTRAM REACHED HIS FATHER'S HOUSE.

Now, after Sir Tristram had journeyed far in divers lands, and tried how this thing and that would fit his spirit, seeing many strange adventures, achieving great exploits, and enduring wondrous perils, he bethought him that he would return unto his father's house; for he said within himself, "I have now seen, and heard, and done all things that a mortal man may, but what remaineth to me this day of those things in which I once took delight? I am aweary of that which hath been seen, and heard, and done, even from the beginning, and who will show me aught besides, therefore will I return unto my father's house in peace.

So he travelled long, over land and sea, over mountain and flood, until it fell out that one evening, towards night-fall, he