gloves should be or opens his trunk and finds a vile among his dress shirts or goes for a long ride with his on his saddle bow and shakes a little from its folds when he opens it or goes out to dinner and finds a little blind under his chair or stays at home and finds a under the or among his boots or hanging head downwards in his tobacco jar or being by his in the � when such a man finds one neither more nor less once a day in a place where no rightly could or should be he is naturally upset when he dare not murder his daily because he believes it to be a an an and half a dozen other things all out of the regular course of nature he is more than upset he is actually distressed some of lone s co thought that he was a highly favoured individual but many said that if he had treated the first with proper respect � as suited a ra � all this trouble would have been averted they compared him to the ancient but none the less they were proud of him and proud of the englishman who had sent the they did not call it a sending because magic was not in their programme after sixteen that is to say after one fortnight for there were three on the first day to impress the fact of the sending the whole camp was uplifted by a letter � it came flying through a window the sending of da � from the old man of the mountains � the head of all the creed � explaining the in the most beautiful language and up all the credit of it for himself the englishman said the letter was not there at all he was a without power or who couldn t even raise a table by force of much less project an army of through space the entire arrangement said the letter was strictly worked and by the highest authorities within the pale of the creed there was great joy at this for some of the weaker brethren seeing that an who had been working on independent lines could create whereas their own rulers had never gone beyond � and broken at best � were showing a desire to break line on their own trail in fact there was the promise of a a second round robin was to the englishman beginning o and ending with a selection of curses from the rites of and and the of who was a fifth upon whose name an third once a is a c compared to the of the englishman had been proved under the hand and seal of the old man of the mountains to have appropriated virtue and pretended to have power which in reality belonged only to the supreme head naturally the round robin did not spare him he handed the letter to da to into decent english the on da was curious at first he was furiously angry and then he laughed for five minutes i had thought he said that they would have come the sending of da to me in another week i would have shown that i sent the sending and they would have the old man of the mountains who has sent this sending of mine do you do nothing the time has come for me to act write as i dictate and i will put them to shame but give me ten more at da s the englishman wrote nothing less than a formal challenge to the old man of the mountains it wound up and if this be from your hand then let it go forward but if it be from my hand i will that the sending shall cease in two days time on that day there shall be twelve and none at all the people shall judge between us this was signed by da who added and and a and half a dozen and a triple to his name just to show that he was all he laid claim to be the challenge was read out to the gentlemen and ladies and they remembered then that da had laughed at them some years ago it was announced that the old man of the mountains would treat the matter with contempt da being an independent without a single round at the back of him but this did not soothe his people they wanted to see a fight they were very human for all their lone who was really being worn out with submitted meekly to his fate he felt that he was being to prove the power of da as the poet says when the stated day dawned the shower of began some were white and some were and all were about the same age three were on his hearth rug three in his bath room and the other six the sending of da turned up at intervals among the visitors who came to see the prophecy break down never was a more satisfactory sending on the next day there were no and the next day and all the other days were and quiet the people murmured and looked to the old man of the mountains for an explanation a letter written on a palm leaf dropped from the ceiling but every one except lone felt that letters were not what the occasion demanded there should have been cats there should have been cats � ones the letter proved that there had been a in the current which with a identity had interfered with the activity all along the main line the were still going on but owing to some failure in the developing they were not the air was thick with letters for a few days afterwards unseen hands played and on finger and clock shades but all men felt that life was a mockery 