You may have any of several explanations :
that the weaver, dipping his wool into the
dye, stopped, for any trivial word or inter-
ruption, and the wool took on a stronger
hue ; or, that another hand or one of the
women or children took up the work ; or,
again, that the plant, from which he bruised
that particular hue, gave out in his back gar-
den. Any of these reasons may be right.
But the more credible one is to believe



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that the artistic weaver knew how effective
is this change of colour, and what a pleas-
ing, changing, varying light and shade it
gives to his masterpiece.
