otion of Canada into her head. Now, as it happened,
owing to Tish's disapproval, Aggie gave up the Canada idea in favor
of Nantucket, some time in June; but she had not reckoned with Tish's
subconscious self. Tish was interested that spring in the subconscious
self.

You may remember that, only a year or so before, it had been the fourth
dimension.

[She became convinced that if one were sufficiently earnest one could go
through closed doors and see into solids. In the former ambition she was
unsuccessful, obtaining only bruises and disappointment; but she did
develop the latter to a certain extent, for she met the laundress going
out one day and, without a conscious effort, she knew that she had the
best table napkins pinned to her petticoat. She accused the woman
sternly--and she had six!]

"Nantucket!" said Tish. "Why Nantucket?"

"I have a niece there, and you said you hated Canada."

"On the contrary," Tish replied, with her eyes partly shut, "I find
that my subconscious self has adopted and been working on the Canadian
suggestion. What a wonderful thing is this buried and greater ego!
Worms, rifles, fishing-rods, 'The Complete Angler,' mosquito netting,
canned goods, and sleeping-bags, all in my mind and in orderly array!"

"Worms!" I said, with, I confess, a touch of scorn in my voice. "If you
will tell me, Tish Carberry--"

"Life preservers," chanted Tish's subconscious self, "rubber blankets,
small tent, folding camp-beds, a camp-stove, a meat-saw, a wood-saw,
and some beads and gewgaws for placating the Indians." Then she opened
her eyes and took up her knitting. "There are no worms in Canada,
Lizzie, just as there are no snakes in Ireland. They were all destroyed
during the glacial period."

"There are plenty of worms in the United States," I said with spirit.
"I dare say they could crawl over the border--unless, of course, they
object to being British subjects."

She ignored me, however, and, getting up, went to one of her bureau
drawers. We saw then that her subconscious self had written down
lists of various things for the Canadian excursion. There was one
headed Foodstuffs. Others were: Necessary Clothing: Camp Outfit;
Fishing-Tackle; Weapons of Defense: and Diversions. Under this last
heading it had placed binoculars, yarn and needles, life preservers,
a prayer-book, and a cribbage-board.

"Boats," she said, "we can secure from the Indians, who make them, I
believe, of hollow logs. And I sha