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"HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON".
The stillness of a summer's day in Prairie Land has all the characteristics of music.

That is not so paradoxical as it seems.

The effect of some music is to produce a divine quiescence of the senses, a suspension of motion and aggressive life; to reduce existence to mere pulsation.

It was this kind of feeling which pervaded that region of sentient being when Shiel Crozier told his story.