Today's Stichomancy for Karl Rove

perforce hit the very edge of the horizon. Such an experience gives you a better impression of the loftiness of your spars than any amount of running aloft could do. And yet in my time the royal yards of an average profitable ship were a good way up above her decks.

No doubt a fair amount of climbing up iron ladders can be achieved by an active man in a ship's engine-room, but I remember moments when even to my supple limbs and pride of nimbleness the sailing- ship's machinery seemed to reach up to the very stars.

For machinery it is, doing its work in perfect silence and with a motionless grace, that seems to hide a capricious and not always

The Mirror of the Sea

The girl sat in the middle of the seat, with Zeb and the Wizard on each side of her. When all was ready the boy shook the reins and said:

"Fly away, Jim!"

"Which wings must I flop first?" asked the cab-horse, undecidedly.

"Flop them all together," suggested the Wizard.

"Some of them are crooked," objected the horse.

"Never mind; we will steer with the wings on the buggy," said Zeb. "Just you light out and make for that rock, Jim; and don't waste any time about it, either."

So the horse gave a groan, flopped its four wings all together, and flew away from the platform. Dorothy was a little anxious about the

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Numbers 26: 15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

Numbers 26: 16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

Numbers 26: 17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

Numbers 26: 18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 26: 19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 26: 20 And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

Numbers 26: 21 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

Numbers 26: 22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 26: 23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

Numbers 26: 24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

Numbers 26: 25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

The Tanach

some days by Zikali and would scarcely dare to return at once, even if she could do so.

Shortly before daylight Lost began to growl again in a subdued and thunderous fashion. This time I got up and dressed myself more or less. Then I went out. The dawn was just breaking and by its light I saw a strange scene. About fifty yards away in the narrow nek that ran over some boulders to the site of our huts, stood what seemed to be the goddess Nomkubulwana as I had seen her on the point of rock in the Vale of Bones. She wore the same radiant dress and in the dim glow had all the appearance of a white woman. I stood amazed, thinking that I dreamt, when from