Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-09-01

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declined, You see, added Noloch,
chuckling-"Sst, sat, sot-"
You are a mad wag, Noloch,"
said L.
"It is only my joking way" he ~
piled. az do enjoy q joke. Some
times they do get me up by the Ca
naan outlet, and set me laughing to
scare the countrymen outside. Do
you notice my peculiarly merry eyer
In the course of my walk with Mo-
loch through the Splurgles Commu-
nifty came to understand how harm
less and even simple minded these
ancient bugaboos really were. If
they were ever malevolent, they had
discarded their malevolence when
superstition discarded them. Like
decayed gentlemen in other branch
es of industry, some of them retained
certain pride in their whilom fepd-
ishness, but the shadow was ludi-
crously unlike the suhetarUq CO.
by one, - ths friendly Moloch t6id
me with many brilliant .jewE deapyit
which regret that I am unablel to
remember, the devils of antiquity,
superseded in dogma and creed by
newer and more fashionable devils,
had withdrawn from the face of the
earth and gone into retirement in this
cavern under the roofs of the three
pronged mountain. Here the played
out fends of forty centuries had found
O certain solace in one another's socie-
ty, and had gradually rusted into the
condition in which I found them
when dragged by the heels into their
community.
"Ahriman has kept his head better
than the rest of us" explained my
guide, the cheerful Moloch, 'and
therefore he bosses us; but privately,
between you and me, I don't believe
he is more formidable or devilish
than any man of the lot."
I saw and talked with Baal. He
seemed little weak in the head, and
was employed in the kitchen of the
establishment, dealing out rations Of
phosphorescent soup. Your soup
shines to-day" I remarked for want
of anything better to say. ts
eyes; it shines, it shines, replied
the superanuated fiend, apparently
struck with the force of my remark.
Then he pusLed, as if unable to grasp
the immensity of the idea, and put
his ladle hand to his forehead, spill
ing q stream of soup down over his
clothes; "It shines, it Shines" he
repeated, not noticing his mishaps,
"and there is something in my head
that buzzes and buzzes." Then he
went on ladling out soup and NUT
tering to himself the feeble analogy,
"It shines, it shines; it buzsss, it
buzzes."
Some of us are farther gone than
Baal is, said Moloch. "There is .
houseful of 'em in the Institution
over there-poor devils who sit and
moan and hardly know enough
to eat and drink. You ought 10 eco
Abaddon. He's sad sight. So far
gone that he cannot appreciate .
good eonundrum.
Afserward had the honor Of an
Introduction TO Lilith, the mistress
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