arose, everybody (including the accused) was apt to act very
foolishly. It has attested too, I hope, the readiness with which you
may read ambiguities into the most respectable of authors; as well as
the readiness with which a fanatical training may lead you to imagine
some underlying impropriety in all writing about any natural function,
even though it be a function so time-hallowed and general as that to
which this curious Dirghic legend refers.




A POSTSCRIPT

(_French of C.J.P. Garnier_)

The swine that died in Gadara two thousand years ago
Went mad in lofty places, with results that all men know--
Went mad in lofty places through long rooting in the dirt,
Which (even for swine) begets at last soul-satisfying hurt.

The swine in lofty places now are matter for no song
By any prudent singer, but--_how long, O Lord, how long?_


_EXPLICIT_




BOOKS _by_ MR. CABELL