MS-HRC-SB-4-3

[0455] Mrs Saposcat.

[0456] Sapo loved nature, took an interest

[0457] This is awful.

[0458] Sapo loved nature, took an interest in animals and plants ^and
willingly raised his eyes to the sky, day and night. [0459] But he
did not know how to look at all these things, the looks he
rained upon them taught him nothing, about them. [0460] He confused
the birds with one another, and the trees, and could not tell one
crop from another crop. [0461] He did not associate the crocus with the
spring nor the crysanthemum with Michaelmas.

[0462] The sun, the moon,
the planets and the stars did not fill him with wonder. [0463] He was
sometimes tempted by the knowledge of these strange things, some-
times beautiful, that he would have about him all his life. But
from his ignorance of them he drew a kind of joy, as from all
that went to swell the murmur, You are a simpleton.

[0464] But he loved
the flight of the hawk and could distinguish it from all others.
[0465] He would stand rapt gazing at the long pernings, the quivering
poise, the wings lifted for the plummet drop, the wild reascent,
fascinated by such extremes of need, of pride, of patience and
solitude.

[0466] I shall not give up yet. [0467] I have finished my soup and sent
back the little table to its place by the door. [0468] A light has
just gone on in one of the two windows of the house across the
way. [0469] By the two windows I mean those I can see always, without