February 13—Some years ago I met a blind man for first time, and was astounded when he said to me, "I have heard a lot about you and thought you were much taller than you are; I take it you are about 50": I asked him how he could guage my height so accurately, and he then said it was quite easy as soon as I spoke, because he had learned to judge the angle at which the sound came to him. I followed up this blind man's tip and am often able to judge the origin of sounds by judging the height irom which they come: here is a quite unimportant example, but an interesting one to me at the time. Returning home the other morning I heard, coming from a ncighhour's garden, the song of a Blackbird....but there was something obviously wrong about it: the proximity and th" angle of sound made the unseen songster about five feet from the ground.... While a Blackbird only sings from a much
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