The mirror., 1922-01-26

carefully enumerated his well-known YER
sion of the blessings of money and so
enthused the poor, ignorant Brobdinacks
that when he finally showed them silver
and gold coin, they nearly fought each
other to death to gain possession thereof.
Wisely Mr.. Lilliput threw the two pieces
of coin in the air unmindful of the even
tual owner and left them to report the
success of his venture to Mrs. Lilliput,
his aristocratic wife and helpmeet and
their equally blase children. The sowing
of evil accomplished, the result was in
evitable. Soon every Brobdinack was filled
with desire, close to passion, to be the
possessor of silver or gold coin such as
Mr.. Lilliput only, seemed to possess, and
willingly slaved night and day in the
interest of this physically Insignificant
piece of humanity so that in the course of
a very short time the wealth of Mr.. Lilli-
put, in natural products from the fields
and woods in possession of the Brobdi-
nakians, caused him to build several ware
houses.
Whenever, some sorehead, unable to
secure for himself gold or even silver
coin dared to utter threats, wise Mr..
Lilliput would whisper word of dire
meaning into the ear of hangeron and
the next morning some Brobdinackian
would kill the trouble-maker. AS the
laws of barter and exchange, as enforced
by Mr.. Lilliput always gave the Brobdi-
nackians the worst of it, it was to be ex-
pected that the latter never could get
sufficient of the medium of exchange to
hoist them anywhere near to the eminence
of Mr.. Lilliput and so the race went on
always in favor of Mr.. Lilliput.
Once, very quiet and greatly beloved
member of the family of Brobdinack who
seemingly never cared for money, usually
spending his time filling the wants of those
disabled or unfit to help themselves,
opened a discussion upon the unfair
methods employed by Mr.. Lilliput and
family. He soon gathered small follow
ing; spies among the Brobdinackians
brought the news to the ears of Mr.. Lilli-
put. A family council was called by the
pigmy and realizing his inability to cope
with the situation as on former occasions,
he decided to employ the old-fashioned,
but never failing remedy of ridicule. He
assembled all the Brobdinackians and told
a story about great clan of good people
wasted to nothing by an usurper calling
him Bolshivik. The story was earnest
ly listened to and thereafter the quiet and
well-beloved member of their family,
while still tolerated, was carefully watched
as either dangerous to their welfare or
crazy.
Again Mr.. Lilliput's master-mind had
been victorious and Brobdinack, despite
its wealth in natural strength, its power
in the sole production of life sustenancc
and even luxuries, remained the chained
giant the willing serf and producer to the
cunning of superior intelligence of
Lilliput. Life goes on in this valley fin
ished Abdul Haman, with births and
deaths for all know, to this day.
Abdul Haman, the story-teller had fin
ished. A smile appeared around his
bearded lips and with narrowing eyes he
anxiously watched the effect of his tale.
His listeners, true to the fashion of Arabs,
uncrossed their legs and slowly arose. The
tension Abdul Haman's vivid story picture
had created slowly broke and singly or in
groups the Navasans and strangers left
the story-teller's tent Comments on the
story were plentiful. All agreed it was a
wonderful tale, greatly interesting and
productive of unwanted amusement for
them all, but as to possible truth therein
of course there was no chance.
No comparison existed with the unfor-
tunate Brobdinackians and the Navasans,