an annual visit
to Swamptown. While that visit lasted there was a general feeling in
the palace--especially among the young people--that a jovial hurricane
was blowing. During the daytime the gale made itself felt in loud
hilarious laughter, song, and story. At night it blew steadily through
his nose. After his departure an unaccountable calm seemed to settle
down upon the whole region!

Beniah performed with powerful effect the task allotted to him, for,
both by precept and example, he so set forth and obeyed the laws of God
that the tone of society was imperceptibly elevated. Men came to know,
and to act upon the knowledge, that this world was not their rest; that
there is a better life beyond, and, in the contemplation of that life,
they, somehow, made this life more agreeable to themselves and to each
other.

Time, which never intermits the beating of his fateful wings, flew by;
the centuries rolled on; the Roman invaders came; the Norsemen and
Saxons came, the Norman conquerors came, and each left their mark, deep
and lasting, on the people and on the land--but they could not check by
one hair's-breadth the perennial flow of the springs in the Hot Swamp,
or obliterate the legend on which is founded this Romance of Old Albion.

THE END.

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