The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

ess, and had to be fed like a newly-hatched bird, and led about and undressed. If he attempted to move, he fell over things or struck himself against walls or d

stead village-it appeared to him as if we drove right through a sandhill-it was perfectly black until he emerged again-and through rocks and trees and solid obstacles, and when he was taken to his own room it made him giddy and almost frantic with the fear of falli

ade the rocks white and disagreeable to see. The sea was often rough, and once there was a thunderstorm, and he lay and shouted at the silent flashes. Once or twice seals pulled up on the beac

lmost poked his eye out with it-and lit it. But he couldn't taste anything. I've since found it's the same

ndant of theirs, Widgery, to attend to it. Widgery's ideas of healthy expeditions were peculiar. My sister, who had been to the Dogs' Home, met them in Camden Town

r I shall die." He was quite incapable of explaining what was the matter, but my sister decided he must go home, and presently, as they went uphill

ied irresistibly towards the water. I was not very much ala

sked, for that s

rode slanting into it, the water crept up to my eyes. Then I went under and the skin seemed to break and heal again about my eyes. The moon gave a jump up in the sky and grew green and dim, and fish, faintly glowing, came darting round me-and things that seemed made of luminous glass; and I passed through a tangle of seaweeds that shone with an oily lustre. And so I drove

of fire along the sides of them as though they had been outlined with a luminous pencil. And there was a ghastly thing swimming backwards with a lot of twining arms. And then I saw, coming very slowly towards me through the gloom, a hazy mass of light that resolved itself as it drew nearer into multitudes of fishes, struggling and darting round something that drifted. I drove on straight towards it, and presently I saw in the midst of the tumu