1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:08,000 Descending of Dana Day by Woundyard Kipling. When the devil rides on your chest, 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:15,119 remember the Chamar native proverb. Once upon a time, some people in 3 00:00:15,119 --> 00:00:20,480 India made a new heaven and a new Earth out of broken teacups, a 4 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:26,239 missing brooch or two, and a hair brush. These were hidden under bushes 5 00:00:26,719 --> 00:00:32,640 or stuffed into holes in the hillside, and an entire civil service of subordinate 6 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:38,439 gods used to find or mend them again. And every one said, there 7 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:44,759 are more things in heaven and Earth than are drained in our philosophy. Several 8 00:00:44,799 --> 00:00:49,799 other things happened also, but the religion never seemed to get much beyond its 9 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:55,759 first manifestations. Though it added an air line, postal duck, and orchestral 10 00:00:55,759 --> 00:01:02,079 effects in order to keep abreast of the times and stall off competent, this 11 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:07,959 religion was too elastic for ordinary use. It stretched itself and embraced pieces of 12 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:15,400 everything that medicine men of all ages have manufactured. It approved and stalled from 13 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:22,599 freemasonry, looted the latter de rosicrusions of half their pet words, took any 14 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:29,000 fragment of Egyptian philosophy that it found in the Encyclopedia Britannica annexed as many of 15 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,959 the Vedas as had been translated into French or English, and talked of all 16 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,519 the rest built in. The German versions of what is left of the Zanda 17 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:47,480 Vesta encouraged white, gray and black magic, including spiritualism, palmistry, fortune 18 00:01:47,519 --> 00:01:53,159 telling by cards, hot chestnuts, double kerneled nuts, and tallow droppings would 19 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,159 have adopted voodoo and Obu had it known anything about them, and showed itself 20 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:04,879 in every way one of the most accommodating arrangement that had ever been invented since 21 00:02:04,879 --> 00:02:09,080 the birth of the sea. When it was in thorough working order, with 22 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:15,439 all the machinery down to the subscriptions complete, Dna Day came from nowhere with 23 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:21,599 nothing in his hands and wrote the chapter in its history, which has hitherto 24 00:02:21,879 --> 00:02:28,840 been unpublished. He said that his first name was Dana and his second was 25 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:34,759 They. Now sitting aside Dana of the New York Sundna is a Pahel name 26 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,800 and they fits no native of India, unless you accept the bengalide as. 27 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:47,599 The original spelling they is lap or finish, and Dana Day was neither finn 28 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:57,159 Chin Pahil benga lap ne'er Gaunt, Romany, mak Bocariot, Kurd, Armenian, 29 00:02:57,439 --> 00:03:01,520 Leventine, Jew, Persian, Panjab, Madrasi, Percy, nor anything 30 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:07,120 else known to ethnologists. He was simply Day a day, and the kind 31 00:03:07,479 --> 00:03:14,520 to give further information. For the sake of brevity, and as roughly indicating 32 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:20,080 his origin, he was called the Native. He might have been the original 33 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,719 old man of the mountains, who is said to be the only authorized head 34 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:29,560 of the Teacup Creed. Some people said that he was, but Dyna Day 35 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:36,159 used to smile and deny any connection with the court, explaining that he was 36 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:43,000 an independent experimenter. As I have said, he came from nowhere with his 37 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:49,479 hands behind his back, and studied the creed for three weeks, sitting at 38 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:55,680 the feet of those best competent to explain its mysteries. Then he laughed aloud 39 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:02,039 and went away. But the laugh might have been either of devotion or derision. 40 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:08,840 When he returned, he was without money, but his pride was unabated. 41 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,319 He declared that he knew more about the things in heaven and earth than 42 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:19,600 those who taught him, and for this contumacy was abandoned altogether. His next 43 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:25,399 appearance in public life was at a big cantonment in Upper India, and he 44 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,759 was then telling fortunes with the help of three laden dies, e, very 45 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,720 dirty old cloth, and a little tin box of opium pills. He told 46 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,560 better fortunes when he was allowed half a bottle of whiskey, but the things 47 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:45,680 which he invented on the opium were quite worth the money. He was in 48 00:04:45,759 --> 00:04:53,000 reduced circumstances. Among other peoples, he told the fortune of an Englishman who 49 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,959 had once been interested in the similar creed, but who later on had married 50 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,399 and forgotten all his old knowledge in the study of babies and exchange. The 51 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:08,399 Englishman allowed Dya Day to tell a fortune for charity's sake, and gave him 52 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:13,959 five rupees, a dinna and some old clothes. When he had eaten, 53 00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:18,639 Dyna Day professed gratitude and asked if there were anything he could do for his 54 00:05:18,759 --> 00:05:24,920 host. In the esoteric line, is there any one that you love, 55 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,120 said Dyna Day. The Englishman loved his wife, but had no desire to 56 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:36,120 drag her name into the conversation. He therefore shook his head. Is there 57 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:43,000 any one that you hate, said deynah Day. The Englishman said that there 58 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:47,759 were several men whom he hated deeply. Very good, said Dena Day, 59 00:05:48,199 --> 00:05:54,279 upon whom the whiskey and the opium were beginning to tell. Only give me 60 00:05:54,399 --> 00:05:59,319 their names, and I will despatch a sending to them and kill them. 61 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:05,040 Now. Ascending is a horrible arrangement, first invented, they say in Iceland. 62 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:11,160 It is a thing sent by a wizard, and may take any form, 63 00:06:11,399 --> 00:06:15,399 but most generally wanders about the land in the shape of a little purple 64 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:21,639 cloud till it finds Descendy, and him it kills by changing into the form 65 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:26,160 of a horse, or a cat, or a man without a face. 66 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,160 It is not strictly a native patent, though Tamars can, if irritated, 67 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:38,920 despatch ascending, which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly 68 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,720 kills him. Very few natives care to irritate Chamars. For this reason. 69 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,560 Let me despatch ascending, said Dana Day. I am nearly dead now with 70 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:56,079 want and drink and opium, but I should like to kill a man before 71 00:06:56,079 --> 00:07:00,600 I die. I can send ascending anywhere you choose, and in any form, 72 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:06,160 except in the shape of a man. The Englishman had no friends that 73 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:12,680 he wished to kill, but partly to suit Dinna Day, whose eyes were 74 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,040 rolling and partly to see what would be done. He asked whether a modified 75 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:23,000 sending could not be arranged for such a sending as should make a man's life 76 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,079 a burden to him and yet do him no harm. If this were possible, 77 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,560 he notified his willingness to give Diyna Day ten rupees for the job. 78 00:07:33,079 --> 00:07:36,800 I am not what I was, once, said Diyna Day, and I 79 00:07:36,879 --> 00:07:43,040 must take the money because I am poor. To what Englishman solids send it? 80 00:07:44,639 --> 00:07:48,000 Send a sending to Lone Saib, said the Englishman, naming a man 81 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:54,240 who had been most bitter in rebuking him for his apostasy from the teacup creed. 82 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:01,160 Diyna Dy laughed and nodded. I could have chosen no better man myself, 83 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,839 said he. I will see that he finds descending about his path and 84 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:11,279 about his bed. He lay down on the hearth rug, turned up the 85 00:08:11,279 --> 00:08:16,240 whites of his eyes, shivered all over, and began to snort. This 86 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:26,759 was magic or opium, or descending or all three. When he opened his 87 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:31,720 eyes, he vowed that descending had started upon the wall path and was at 88 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:39,480 that moment flying up to the town where Lone sahiblows give me my ten rupees, 89 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:43,600 said Dynaday wearily, and write a letter to Lone Sahib, telling him 90 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,720 and all who believe with him, that you and a friend are using a 91 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:52,480 power greater than theirs. They will see that you are speaking the truth. 92 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,759 He departed unsteadily, with the promise of some more repeat if anything came of 93 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:03,840 this, The Englishman sent a letter to Lone Sahib, couched in what he 94 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:09,360 remembered of the terminology of the creed. He wrote, I also in the 95 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,879 days of what you held to be my back sliding, have obtained enlightenment, 96 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:20,440 and with enlightenment has come power. Then he grew so deeply mysterious that the 97 00:09:20,519 --> 00:09:24,840 recipient of the letter could make neither head nor tail of it, and was 98 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:33,480 proportionately impressed, for he fancied that his friend had become a fifth rounder. 99 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:37,480 When a man is a fifth rounder, he can do more than Slade and 100 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:45,799 Hooden combined. Loneshibe read the letter in five different fashions, and was beginning 101 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,200 a sixth interpretation when his bearer dashed in with the news that there was a 102 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:56,000 cat on his bed. Now, if there was one thing that lonesoev hated 103 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,440 more than another. It was a cat. He rated the bearer for not 104 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:05,639 turning it out of the house. The bearer said that he was afraid all 105 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:09,679 the doors of the bedroom had been shut throughout the morning, and no real 106 00:10:09,759 --> 00:10:15,960 cat could possibly have entered the room. He would prefer not to meddle with 107 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:22,159 the creature. Lone Sahib entered the room gingerly, and there on the pillow 108 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,279 of his bed sprawled and whimpered. A wee white kitten. Not a jump 109 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,679 some frisky little beast, but a slug like crawler, with its eyes barely 110 00:10:31,759 --> 00:10:37,480 open and its pause lacking strength or direction, A kitten that ought to have 111 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:43,519 been in a basket with its mamma. Lone Sahib caught it by the scruff 112 00:10:43,519 --> 00:10:48,399 of its neck, handed it over to the sweeper to be drowned and find 113 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,960 the bearer for on us. That evening, as he was reading in his 114 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:58,600 room, he fancied that he saw something moving about on the hearth's rug outside 115 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:03,519 the circle of light from his breathing lamp. When the thing began to yell, 116 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,720 he realized that it was a kitten, A wee white kitten, nearly 117 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:16,320 blind and very miserable. He was seriously angry and spoke bitterly to his bearer, 118 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:18,720 who said that there was no kitten in the room when he brought in 119 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:26,080 the lamp, and real kittens of tender age generally had mother cats in attendants. 120 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:30,320 If the present will go out into the verandah and listen, said the 121 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,080 bearer, he will hear no cats. How therefore can the kitten on the 122 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:39,679 bed and the kitten on the hearthwork be real kittens? Lone Sahib went out 123 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:45,759 to listen, and the bearer followed him, but there was no sound of 124 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:52,000 Rachel mewing for her children. He returned to his room, having hurled the 125 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,799 kitten down the hillside, and wrote out the incidents of the day for the 126 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:03,600 benefit of his co religionists. Those people were so absolutely free from superstition that 127 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:09,159 they ascribed anything a little out of the common to agencies, as it was 128 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,360 their business to know all about the agencies. They were on terms of almost 129 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:22,480 indecent familiarity with manifestations of every kind. Their letters dropped from the ceiling unstamped, 130 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:28,120 and spirits used to squatter up and down their staircases all night. But 131 00:12:28,799 --> 00:12:35,320 they had never come into contact with kittens lond Sahib wrote out the facts, 132 00:12:35,519 --> 00:12:39,879 noting the hour and the minute, as a resychical observer is bound to do, 133 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,440 and depending the Englishman's letter because it was the most mysterious document and might 134 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:52,720 have had a bearing upon anything in this world or the next. An outsider 135 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:58,559 would have translated all the tangle does look out. You laughed at me once, 136 00:12:58,919 --> 00:13:03,320 and now I am going to make you set up. Lonzeib's co religionists 137 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:09,639 found that meaning in it, but their translation was refined and full of forcelable 138 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:16,120 words. They held a ceederand and were filled with tremulous joy, for in 139 00:13:16,159 --> 00:13:20,240 spite of their familiarity with all the other worlds and cycles, they had a 140 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:26,559 very human awe of things sent from ghost land. They met in Lonese Haibe's 141 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:31,759 room in shrouded and sepulchral gloom, and their conclave was broken up by a 142 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:37,360 clinking among the photo frames on the mantel piece. A wee white kitten, 143 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:45,080 nearly blind, was looping and writhing itself between the clock and the candlesticks. 144 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,399 That stopped all investigations or doubtings. Here was the manifestation in the flesh. 145 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:58,679 It was so far as could be seen devoid of purpose, but it was 146 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:05,919 a manifestation of undoubted authenticity. They drafted the round robin to the Englishman, 147 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,200 the backsider of old days, adjuring him in the interests of the creed, 148 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,200 to explain whether there was any connection between the embodiment of some Egyptian god or 149 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:22,960 other. I have forgotten the name and his communication. They called the kitten 150 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:28,759 ra or Thoth or Shem or Noah or something. And when lone Sahib confessed 151 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,720 that the first one had, at his most misguided instances, been drowned by 152 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:39,639 the sweeper, they said consolingly that in his next life he would be a 153 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:46,159 bounder, and not even a rounder of the lowest grade. These words may 154 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,840 not be quite correct, but they expressed the sense of the house accurately. 155 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,320 When the Englishman received the round robin, it came by post, he was 156 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,960 startled and bewildered. He sent in to the bazaar for day in and day 157 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,639 who read the letter and laughed. That is my sending, said he. 158 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:11,519 I told you I would work well. Now give me another ten rupees. 159 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,720 But what in the world is this gibberish about the Egyptian gods? Asked the 160 00:15:18,799 --> 00:15:24,960 Englishman. Cats said dyn a Day with a hiccough, for he had discovered 161 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:31,440 the Englishman's whisky bottle. Cats and cats and cats. Never was such a 162 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:37,080 sending A hundred of cats. Now give me ten more rupees and write as 163 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:43,759 I dictate. Then a Day's letter was a curiosity. It bore the Englishman's 164 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,320 signature and hinted at cats, at ascending of cats. The mere words on 165 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:54,039 paper were creepy and on canny. To behold, what have you done, 166 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,879 though, said the Englishman? I am as much in the dark as ever. 167 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,799 Do you mean to say that you can actually send this absurd sending? 168 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:07,799 You talk about George for yourself, said Dinna Day. What does not let 169 00:16:07,879 --> 00:16:11,960 him mean? In a little time they will all be at my feet and 170 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:18,399 yours, and I O glory will be drugged or drunk or lay long. 171 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:25,279 Din a Day knew his people. When a man who hates cats wakes up 172 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:29,720 in the morning and finds a little squirming kitten on his breast, or puts 173 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,440 his hand into his oldster pocket and finds a little half that kitten where his 174 00:16:33,519 --> 00:16:38,200 gloves should be, or opens his trunk and finds a vile kitten among his 175 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:44,399 dress shirts, or goes for a long ride with macintosh strapped on his saddle 176 00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:48,279 bow, and shakes a little sprawling kitten from its folds when he opens it, 177 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:52,159 or goes out to dinner and finds a little blind kitten under his chair, 178 00:16:52,759 --> 00:16:57,039 or stays at home and finds a rhything kitten under the coilt, or 179 00:16:57,039 --> 00:17:03,399 wriggling among his boots, or hanging had downward in his tobacco jar, or 180 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,240 being mangled by his terrier in the verandah. When such a man finds one 181 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:12,559 kitten neither more nor less, once a day, in a place where no 182 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:19,039 kitten rightly could or should be, he is naturally upset. When he dare 183 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:25,200 not murder his daily trove because he believes it to be a manifestation, an 184 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,000 emissary, an embodiment, and have a dozen other things, all out of 185 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,119 the regular cause of nature, he is more than upset. He is actually 186 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:40,119 distressed. Some of Lon Sehib's co religionists thought that he was a highly favored 187 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:45,599 individual, but many said that if he had treated the first kitten with proper 188 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:52,640 respect, as suited as tautah to whomb sinequiib embodiment, all his trouble would 189 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:57,839 have been averted. They compared him to the ancient mariner, but none the 190 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:03,240 less they were out of him and proud of the Englishman who had sent the 191 00:18:03,319 --> 00:18:08,319 manifestation. They did not call it ascending, because Icelandic magic was not in 192 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:15,200 their program. After sixteen kittens, that is to say, after a fortnight, 193 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,359 for there were three kittens on the first day. To impress the fact 194 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:26,240 of descending, the whole camp was uplifted by a letter. It came flying 195 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,960 through a window from the old Man of the Mountains, the head of all 196 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:36,759 the Creed, explaining the manifestation in the most beautiful language, and soaking up 197 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,880 all the credit of it for himself. The Englishman said the letter was not 198 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:48,039 there at all. He was a backslider without power or asceticism, who couldn't 199 00:18:48,079 --> 00:18:52,680 even raise a table by force of volition, much less project an army of 200 00:18:52,799 --> 00:19:00,319 kitten through space. The entire arrangement said the letter was strictly authored, worked, 201 00:19:00,519 --> 00:19:06,599 and sanctioned by the highest authorities within the pale of the Creed. There 202 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,920 was great joy at this for some of the weaker brethren, seeing that an 203 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,559 outsider who had been working on independent lines could create kittens, whereas their own 204 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:22,480 rulers had never gone beyond crockery and broken at that were showing a desire to 205 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:26,480 break a line on their own trail. In fact, there was the promise 206 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:33,119 of his chism. A second round Robin was drafted to the Englishman, beginning 207 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,680 OUs Coffer and ending with the selection of courses from the rights of Mizraim and 208 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:44,279 Memphis, and the combination of Drugana, who was a fifth rounder, upon 209 00:19:44,279 --> 00:19:49,599 whose name an Upstad third rounder once traded a papal excommunication, is a bier 210 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:56,279 doux. Compared to the combination of Drougana, the Englishman had been proved under 211 00:19:56,279 --> 00:20:00,160 the hand and seal of the Old Man of the Mountains, to we have 212 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:07,400 appropriated virtue and pretended to have power, which in reality belonged only to the 213 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,680 Supreme Head. Naturally, the round Robin did not spare him. He handed 214 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:18,839 the letter today a day to translate into decent English. The effect on day 215 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:23,880 the day was curious. At first he was furiously angry, and then he 216 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,680 laughed. For five minutes. I had thought, he said, that they 217 00:20:30,799 --> 00:20:34,559 would have come to me in another week. I would have shown that I 218 00:20:34,599 --> 00:20:40,000 sent descending, and they would have discrowned the Old Man of the mountains, 219 00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:45,480 who has sent descending of mine? Do you do nothing? The time has 220 00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:51,000 come for me to act. Write as I dictate, and I will put 221 00:20:51,079 --> 00:20:56,480 them into shame. But give me ten more rupees. At Dinna Day's dictation, 222 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,839 the Englishman wrote nothing less than for challenge to the Old Man of the 223 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:07,519 mountains. It wound up, and if this manifestation be from your hand, 224 00:21:07,079 --> 00:21:11,720 then let it go forward. But if it be from my hand, I 225 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:18,119 will that the standing shall seize in two days time. On that day there 226 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:23,720 shall be twelve kittens, and thenceforward none at all. The people shall judge 227 00:21:23,759 --> 00:21:30,559 between us. This was signed by Dayna Day, who added pentacles and pentagrams, 228 00:21:30,839 --> 00:21:34,119 and the crooks and satta and half a dozen swastikas and a triple Tao 229 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,759 to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to 230 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:45,559 be. The challenge was read out to the gentlemen and ladies, and they 231 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:51,039 remembered then that Diyna Day had laughed at them some years ago. It was 232 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:56,279 officially announced that the Old Man of the Mountains would treat the matter with contempt. 233 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:00,000 They a Day, being an independent investigator without a sayled round at the 234 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:06,559 back of him. But this did not soothe his people. They wanted to 235 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,559 see a fight. They were very human for all their spirituality. Lone Sahib, 236 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:17,240 who was really being worn out with kittens, submitted meekly to his fate. 237 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,359 He felt that he was being kittened to prove the power of day to 238 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:29,079 day as the poets. When the stated day dawned, the shower of kittens 239 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,000 began. Some were white and some were tabby, and all were about the 240 00:22:33,039 --> 00:22:38,480 same Loathsome age three were on his hearth rug, three in his bathroom, 241 00:22:40,039 --> 00:22:44,160 and the other six turned up at intervals. Among the visitors who came to 242 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:49,119 see the prophecy break down, never was a more satisfactory sending. On the 243 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,440 next day there were no kittens, And the next day and all the other 244 00:22:53,519 --> 00:23:00,000 days were kittenless and quiet. The people murmured and looked to the old man 245 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:04,960 of the mountains for an explanation. A letter written on a palm leaf dropped 246 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:11,599 from the ceiling, but every one except Lone Sahib, felt that letters were 247 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:17,000 not what the occasion demanded. There should have been cats. There should have 248 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:22,960 been cats full ground. Once the letter proved conclusively that there had been a 249 00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:27,519 hitch in the psychic current, which colliding with a dual identity, had interfered 250 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:33,279 with the precipient activity. All along the main line, the kittens were still 251 00:23:33,319 --> 00:23:37,480 going on, but owing to some failure in the developing fluid, they were 252 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:42,480 not materialized. The air was thick with letters for a few days afterwards, 253 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,240 unseen hands played Gluk and Beethoven on finger bowls and clock shades. But all 254 00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:56,440 men felt that psychic life was a mockery without materialized kittens. Even lone tahebe 255 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:02,400 shouted with the majority on this head. These letters were very insulting, and 256 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,319 if he had then offered to lay the new departure, there is no knowing 257 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,079 what might not have happened. But dinn a Day was dying of whisky and 258 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:17,119 opium in the Englishman's go down, and had small heart for new creeds. 259 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:22,839 They have been put to shame, said he never was such as sending it 260 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:29,839 has killed me. Nonsense, said the Englishman. You are going to die 261 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,559 diyn a day, and that sort of stuff must be left behind. I'll 262 00:24:33,599 --> 00:24:38,119 admit that you have made some queer things come about. Tell me honestly, 263 00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:45,160 now, how was it done? Give me ten more rupees, said Dinna 264 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:51,000 Day faintly, and if I die before I spend them, bury them with 265 00:24:51,319 --> 00:24:56,160 me. The silver was counted out, while dinn a day was fighting with 266 00:24:56,279 --> 00:25:00,319 death. His hand closed upon the money, and he smiled, a grim 267 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:10,720 smile, bent low, he whispered, the Englishman bent Boronnia mission school, 268 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:19,079 expelled, Bokswallah peddler, Ceylon pearl merchant, all mine, English education outcasted 269 00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:26,440 and made up named Dinna day, England with American thought reading man. And 270 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:33,440 you gave me ten rupees several times I gave the Sahib's bearer to eight a 271 00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:38,279 month for cats, little a little cats, I wrote, and he put 272 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:44,880 them about, very clever man, Very few kittens now in the bazaar, 273 00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:52,079 ask lone sahib sweeper's wife, So, saying dinner day gasped and passed away 274 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:57,319 into a land where, if all be true, there are no materializations, 275 00:25:57,799 --> 00:26:04,559 and the making of new creeds is discouraged. But consider the gorgeous simplicity of 276 00:26:04,599 --> 00:26:04,960 it all.