The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-10


eyesight year by year. and cannot tell
I log from me-the ungger Of the Gnaut
saw the mistake when she threw the
garland. for was lying at the very foot
OF the CHANT, and had she taken another
step / could have shown her some nttie
difference. Yet she meant well. ana we
must consider the spirit Of her Offering
What good are marigold wreaths when
one is on the rubbish heap? said the
jackal hunting fieas, but keeping one
wary eye on his Protector of the Poor.
True, but they have not yet Begun 10
make the rubbish heap that shall carry
me- Five times have / seen the river
draw back from the village and make
new land at the foot of the street. rive
times have I seen the village rebuilt on
the banks and I shall see II punt YET
five times more. am no faithless. hsh.
hunting gaviai. /. at kasi To-Day ana
Prayag tomorrow. as the saving Is. put
the true and constant watcher OF the
ford. 1t is not for nothing, cnha. that
the village bears my name, ana ne VINO
watches long, as the saying is, snail al
last have his reward.
"I have watched long-yery iong-neariy
all my life and my reward has been cites
and blows" said the jackai-
lilo. Ho, Ho." reared the adjutant.
I'm August was the jackal born,
The rains fell in September;
Says he, I can't remember
There is one very unpleasant popularity
about the adjutant. At uncertain times
he suffers from accute attacks or the nd
gets or cramps In his legs, and although
he is more yirtuous TO behold than any or
the cranes. who are all immensely re-
spectable he flies off into wild, Cripple
silt war dances. half opening his wings
and bobbing his bald head up and down,
f1aOs Ern n
he is very careful TO time his worst at
lacks with his nastiest remarks. AZ the
last word of his song he came TO atten-
ton again. ten times adjutanter than be-
fore.
The iackai WINGED, though he was full
three seasons old. but you cannot resent
an insult from person with beak
yard long, and the power Of driving X
like a javelin. The adjutant was a most
notorious coward but the jackal was
worse.
I'VE must live before we can learn"
said the mugger, land there Is this to
say. Little jackals are very common.
child, but such mugger as am Is not
common. For all that am not proud.
since pride is destruction: but take no.
tice, it il fate, and against his fate no
one who swims or walks or runs should
say anything at all. / am we'll con-
keen eye and the custom of considering
whether q creek or a backwater has an
outlet to 1t ere you ascend. much may be
done"
"once heard that even the Protector
OF the Poor made mistake" said the
jackal viciously.
True; but there my fate helped me
It was before / had come to my full
growth-bcfore the last famine but three
he irh "a
full the streams used to be In those
daysD Yes. I was young and unthink-
Ing. and when the flood came who SO
plea sed as /? A little made me very hap
by then. The village was deep in flood.
and I swan above the ghaut and went
far inland. up to the ricefelds, and they
were deep In good mud. I remember also
a pair of bracelets (glass they were, and
troubled me not a little) that found that
evening. Yes, glass bracelets: and, IL my
memory serves me WELL shoe. / should
have shaken Off both shoes. but was
hungry. I learned better later. Yes. And
so I fed and rested me: but when ] was
ready to go to the river again the flood
had fallen. and walked through the mud
of the main street. Who but /? Came
out all my people. priests and women
and children, and looked upon them
with benevolence The mud is not
good place to fight In. Said hoatman:
Get axes and kill him. for he is the mug
ger of the ford Not So said the Brah-
min Look he Is driving the flood before
him, He is the godling of the village
Then they threw many flowers at me.
and by happy thought one led goat
across the road"
How good, how very good, is goatp'
said the jackai.
Hairy. too hairy. and when found In
the water are more likely to hide a cross
shaped hook. But that goat / accepted.
and went down to the ghaut in great hon.
or Later my fate sent me the boatman
who had desired to cut off my tail with
an ak. His boat grounded upon an old
shoai which you would not remember
I'VE are not ell jackais here" said the
adjutant. Was il the shoal made where
the stone boats sank in the year of the
great drougtt-a long shoal that lasted
three foods"
There were two" said the mugger. IAN
upper and a lower shoai'
LAY. I forgot. A channel divided them,
and later dried up again" said the adju-
,an'. who rrided himself on his memory.
ION the lower shoai my well-wisher's
craft grounded. He was sleeping in the
bows. and. half awake ieaped over 10 his
watst-no, IL was no more than 10 his
knees-to push of. His empty heat went
on and touched again below the next
reach, rs the river ran then. / followed
because knew men would come out TO
drag u ashore"
And did they % So" said the iackai.
little awe-stricken This was hunting
on q scale that impressed him.
There ard lower down they did
went no further. hGt that gave me three.
IN one day-well fed naniis ftyoatnen,
alt and except IN the case OF the last
then was careless} never a cry to warn
those on the hank.
"Ah. noble sport But what cleverness
ard great Judgment il requires said
the iaekal.
Not cievrrness child. bat thought.
little thought IN life is like salt upon nee.
as the boatmen say. and / have thought
deeply always. The gaviaI. my cousin.
the ..sh eater has told me how hard q
is for him 10 follow tire fish, and how one
fsh differs from the other. and how he
| must know them all. both together ana
apart. I say that is vision. hut or tne
other hard. my cousin the gwxial lives
among his people My people DO no,
swim in companies with rSelr mouths
out % the water. rs Rewa does; nor do
| they constantly rise 10 the surface Of M.
! water and turn over on their sides Itke
/ Mohoo and litsIe Chspta, nor do they
gather In shoals after food. Ike Ratchua
ard C'hnva''
"Ait are very good eating" said the
a3tu'aat, Gathering hts hoax
80 nay cousin SAYS and makes a
great TODD about hunting them. bur thew
Go rot climb ire hanks 10 escape his
sharp nose Ny people are otherwise
Their life is on the land in the houses
smong the cattle ] must know What