"Nay," they cried, "what hast thou seen?
O, is it come to this ?" He answered them, "The door is shut." NOTES TO "A STORY OF DOOM." PAGE 358.
The name of the patriarch's wife is intended to be pronounced Nigh-loi-ya.
Of the three sons of Noah,--Shem, Ham, and Japhet,--I have called Japhet the youngest (because he is always named last), and have supposed that, in the genealogies where he is called "Japhet the elder," he may have received the epithet because by that time there were younger Japhets.
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The quivering butterflies in companies, That slowly crept adown the sandy marge, Like _living crocus beds_.
This beautiful comparison is taken from "The Naturalist on the River Amazons." "Vast numbers of orange-colored butterflies congregated on the moist sands.

They assembled in densely-packed masses, sometimes two or three yards in circumference, their wings all held in an upright position, so that the sands looked as though variegated with _beds of crocuses_." THE END..