The letters fell among the bracken and settled with the passage of sun and rains. The rubber band blistered in the heat and a possum flip­ped them over with his paw, but they smelt of nothing and he went on. The two bills rejoined the earth after a succession of rains and suns and the ink of the other gradually ran and bleached and finally was frittered by the passage of ants until no single word could be made out, but any way nobody passed that way.