en the Master came in an hour or so later he
understood at a glance what Finn's trouble was, though the casual
observer might well have thought there was no particular change in
his circumstances. The fact was Finn had sustained a real shock,
and his perturbation about it lasted for nearly half an hour, after
which it retired, overcome by youthful curiosity. Finn had suddenly
awakened to the fact that he was no longer blind; he had stepped,
at one uncertain stride, into a seeing life. It was like being born
again, and that with faculties matured and sharpened by nearly a
fortnight's life in the world. It really was no trifling adventure
for Finn, this discovery of a new and very wonderful sense, which
had come simply with the parting of the lids that covered his
black-brown eyes.

He spent practically the whole of that day testing this new sense
which had come to him with so great a shock. For instance, he found
that if he crawled a certain distance from the foster in one
direction, the air before him became whiter and whiter, until at
last he stubbed his toes and his nose against it. And that was his
first acquaintance with walls. Then, when he crawled in another
direction, he came presently to a ledge several inches in height,
and when, as the result of really herculean efforts, he had raised
his fat body upon that ledge, the floor beyond jumped up and hit
him very hard, and left him helpless as a turtle on its back, till
the foster came and lifted him back to bed in her jaws. That was
how he learned that it was not wise for very small pups to climb
over the edges of beds. Towards evening, when many useful lessons
had been learned, and the pup was beginning to swagger over the
advantage given him by his new-found sense, in the matter of
picking and choosing feeding-places, and demanding his foster-mother's
attention by planting one foot on her eye, and so forth,
Finn came to the conclusion that this new power he had was, upon
the whole, a remarkably fine thing, and a jolly gift, even if it
did keep one awake, and lead to considerable exhaustion, and---- And
then he shut up his little black-brown eyes, and, well
sheltered by the foster's right hind-leg and tail, went fast asleep
and dreamed of warm milk.

From this point onward, Finn's progress was rapid. Whereas till now
he had seemed little more than an appendage of the sheep-dog
foster-mother, he now rapidly developed a personality, and a very
masterful one, of