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THE HESPERIAN
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"You may not hnvo boon worth tho nionoy,
Douglass,
Not half worth what 1 gavo for you,
fi But all shoos beside aro too much liko
; shadows,
DouglasB, Douglass,
Threo-dollar shoo."
And then the last verso, tho best of them
all, I think, though the family say it iB
abominable. For they all got tired out and
1 had to write this verso by myself.
"Oh, to call back tho Bhoes that are not!
Mine eyes were blinded, your holes were
few;
But I know your worth now, going bare
foot, Douglass, Douglass,
Three-dollar bIioo."
Annie Pkey.
Nabob, "First declare unto me tho seventieth
word." And ho could not. Thon Zimri
was wroth with Nabob, and over against tho
namo of Nabob wrote ho, "Lot Nabob bo
cast into outer darkness." And. there was
weeping and gnashing of tooth.
K.ATIIAMNE MeLIOK.
A PARABLE ON "A PARABLE."
A PARABLE.
See Nobruslcun, February 22.
Now Nabob had djvelt in Ama. And
they sat at tho feet of Zimri tho scribe, to
learn wisdom. And Zimri instructed them
every day of hiB knowledge. And wisdom
increased in the land.
This was the manner of tho instruction of
Zimri. Zimri bore in his girdle a scroll;
and Nabob and Shillah had pondered well
all tho words of Zimri, they uttered them
again unto him. Then wrote Zimri, over
against tho names of. Nabob and Shillah,
their work, whether it wero good or whether
it were evil.
And it came to pass, in those days, that
Nabob treasured woll many words of Zimri,
only tho nine and seventieth word, that1 re
membered ho not. And Shillah, likewise,
remembered not the two and twentieth
word, of all tho words of Zimri. Then
came they, and Zimri said unto Shillah,
"Behold, toll unto mo tho seventh and
twentieth word of those my sayings, and tho
six and fiftieth also, declare thou it." And
it was done. And ho wrote upon his scroll,
even between tho leaves of it, "Let Shillah
bo called blessed." And ho said unto
Respectfully dedicated to tho ton sons and dauBhtorsof tho
House of Ktiluibriikii.
In the land of Oblovon over against Gaul,
oh the shores of tho rivor Inan, dwelt Raka
braka, and his ton sons -and daughters. Now
tho daughters wore throe, and tho sons wore
seven.
And a groat famine arose in tho land; and
Rakabraka had no broad; and tho spirit of
Rakabraka was faint within him. And his
ton sons and daughters looked upon him;
and they sought wherewithal to feed him; and
there was nothing, no, not so much as barley
corn. And they looked upon one another,
and their spirit was sick within them.
Then arose Rabonezra, and stood boforo
his brothron, and cried, "Lo, hath not tho
house of Hespor broad and to spare, and wo
perish of hunger? Go to, let us take unto
ourselves sticks and stones, and lot us fall
upon tho keepers of tho field over against
tho Mount Copaz. So shall a tithe of tho
harvest of Hespor fall unto us, and wo shall
live and not die."
Then all tho sons and daughters of Raka
braka clapped their hands. And it was so.
And Rakabraka onduroth unto this day.
Howbeit, tho house of Hespor had com
passion on tho hun&oy of Rakabraka. And
they delivered notibenczra to tho magis
trate, but they had mercy on him, and said,
"Lot his sin bo upon his own head. Lo,
other fields are ours. Let him go down into
tho shadow of darkness, and lot tho perpetual
darkness, and lot the perpetual silence como
upon him, for our hand shall not bo upon
him, neither shall our right hand smite him.
Tho tomb of tho Swipors shall hold him, and
with tho Hat-stoalors shall he lie. Let be.
Lot us see what shall bo his end."