planet, probably Mercury. Her proclivity to her true sphere
destroys all the natural influence which this orb would otherwise
possess over her corporeal frame. She cares for nothing here. There
is no relation between her and this world.

"She must therefore be taught, by the sternest compulsion, to take
an interest in the earth as the earth. She must study every
department of its history--its animal history; its vegetable
history; its mineral history; its social history; its moral
history; its political history, its scientific history; its
literary history; its musical history; its artistical history;
above all, its metaphysical history. She must begin with the
Chinese dynasty and end with Japan. But first of all she must study
geology, and especially the history of the extinct races of
animals-their natures, their habits, their loves, their hates,
their revenges. She must--"

"Hold, h-o-o-old!" roared Hum-Drum. "It is certainly my turn now.
My rooted and insubvertible conviction is, that the causes of the
anomalies evident in the princess's condition are strictly and
solely physical. But that is only tantamount to acknowledging that
they exist. Hear my opinion.-- From some cause or other, of no
importance to our inquiry, the motion of her heart has been
reversed. That remarkable combination of the suction and the
force-pump works the wrong way-I mean in the case of the
unfortunate princess: it draws in where it should force out, and
forces out where it should draw in. The offices of the auricles and
the ventricles are subverted. The blood is sent forth by the veins,
and returns by the arteries. Consequently it is running the wrong
way through all her corporeal organism--lungs and all. Is it then