119 predominates, sometimes another. What man seeks in amusement is to fill up the vacant possibilities of his consciousness, and sometimes it is consciousness of one character and sometimes of another that he seeks. The handicraftsman, tired of monotonous action, will commonly turn to books and intellectual amusements. The tired thinker to some active exercise, however simple. The countryman, who has his full share of outdoor activity in ordinary life, loves nothing so much as to have his feelings aroused by a blood-curdling melodrama.