Well, well! it's a strange world; and it's a wonderful thought too, that this may be the grave of some primaeval ancestor of mine who roamed this Peak for his daily food--an ancestor of some importance too, in his day, to judge by the magnificence of his tomb.

A poet might make something out of this: to-day face to face with the day before yesterday.

But that's the beauty of archaeology.

I did not know it was a pursuit of yours, and am glad to see you are sufficiently recovered of your illness to take it up again.

Good-bye for the present.