for others that is all but i have noticed lying at my station below the ford that the stairs of the new bridge are cruelly hard to climb both for old people and young children the old indeed are not so worthy of consideration but i am grieved � i am truly grieved on account of the fat children still i think in a little while when the of the bridge has worn away we shall see my people s bare brown legs bravely through the ford as before then the old will be honored again but surely i saw wreaths floating off the edge of the only this noon said the wreaths are a sign of reverence all india over an error � an error it was the wife of the she loses her year by year and cannot tell a log from me � the of the i saw the mistake when she threw the for i was lying at the very foot of the and had she taken another step i might have shown her some little differ the second book ence yet she meant well and we must consider the spirit of the offering what good are wreaths when one is on the rubbish heap said the hunting for but keeping one wary eye on his protector of the poor true but they have not yet begun to make the rubbish heap that shall carry me five times have i seen the river draw back from the village and make new land at the foot of the street five times have i seen the village on the banks and i shall see it built yet five times more i am no fish hunting i at to day and to morrow as the saying is but the true and constant of the ford it is not for nothing child that the village bears my name and he who watches long as the saying is shall at last have his reward have watched long � very long � nearly all my life and my reward has been and blows said the ho ho ho roared the ih august was the born the rains fell in september now such a fearful flood as this says he i can t remember the there is one very unpleasant peculiarity about the at uncertain times he suffers from acute attacks of the or in his legs and though he is more virtuous to behold than any of the who are all immensely respectable he flies off into wild war dances half opening his wings and his bald head up and down while for reasons best known to himself he is very careful to time his worst attacks with his remarks at the last word of his song he came to attention again ten times than before the though he was full three seasons old but you cannot resent an insult from a person with a a yard long and the power of driving it like a the was a most notorious coward but the was worse we must live before we can learn said the and there is this to say little are very common child but such a as i am is not common for all that i am not proud since pride is destruction but take notice it is fate and against his fate no one who or walks or runs should say anything at all i am well contented with fate with good luck a keen eye and the custom of considering whether a the second book creek or a has an to it ere you ascend much may be done once i heard that even the protector of the poor made a mistake said the true but there my fate helped me it was before i had come to my full growth � before the last famine but three by the right and left of how full used the streams to be in those days yes i was young and and when the flood came who so pleased as i a little made me very happy then the village was deep in flood and i swam above the and went far inland up to the rice fields and they were deep in good mud i remember also a pair of glass they were and troubled me not a little that i found that evening yes glass and if my memory serves me well a shoe i should have shaken off both shoes but i was hungry i learned better later yes and so i fed and rested me but when i was ready to go to the river again the flood had fallen and i walked through the mud of the main street who but i came out all my people priests and women and children and i looked upon them with benevolence the mud is not a good place to fight in said a get and kill him for he is the of the the ford not so said the look he is driving the flood before him he is the of the village then they threw many flowers at me and by happy thought one led a goat across the road how good � how very good is goat said the hairy � too hairy and when found in the water more than likely to hide a cross shaped hook but that goat i accepted and went down to the in great honor later my fate sent me the who had desired to cut off my tail with an axe his boat upon an old which you would not remember we are not all here said the was it the made where the sank in the year of the great � a long that lasted three floods there were two said the an upper and a lower ay i forgot a channel divided them and later dried up again said the who himself on his memory 