A large room with a door at the back and another at the side, or else a curtained place where persons can enter by parting the curtains. A desk and a chair at one side. An hour-glass on a bracket or stand near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some, benches. A WISE MAN siting at his desk. WISE MAN. Turning over the pages of a book. WHERE is that passage I am to explain to my pupils to-day Here it is, and the book says that it was written by a beggar on the walls of Babylon There are two living countries, the one visible and the one invisible and when it is winter with us it is summer in that country, and when the November winds are up among it is lambing-time there. I wish that my pupils had asked me to explain any other passage. The FOOL comes in and stands at the door holding out his hat. He has a pair of shears in the other hand. It sounds to me like foolishness and yet that cannot be, for the writer of this book, where I have found so much know- ledge, would not have set it by...