BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS

Author of"Down Dartmoor Way,""Some Everyday Folks""The End of a Life,"etc.

"'Tis like this: your man did take plain Nature for God, an'he did talk fulishness'bout finding Him in the scent o'flowers, the hum o'bees an'sichlike. Mayhap Nature's a gude working God for a selfish man but she ed'n wan for a maid, as you knaws by now. Then your faither—his God do sit everlastingly alongside hell-mouth, an'do laugh an'girn to see all the world a walkin'in, same as the beasts walked in the Ark. The er's another picksher of a God for'e; but mark this, gal, they be lying prophets—lying prophets both!"—Book II., Chapter XI.