ABSTRACT

A M O T H E R once said to her child, ‘If a phantom comes to you in the night, or if you see in the graveyard or some dreadful place a black bogy full of fury, keep a stout heart and rush upon it, and it will turn from you at once and flee.*

‘But/ said the child, ‘suppose the devilish bogy has been told the same thing by its mother; if I rush upon it, it w ill obey its mother’s instructions and fall on my neck. Then what am I to do ? You are teaching me to stand firm ; but the hideous bogy also has a mother!’