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KONX OM PAX
ll.
Wednesday cardiac symptoms
come;
Thursday diabetic.
Blow the fiddle,
strum
the drum!
Friday I'm paretic.
Chorus.
m.
If on Saturday my foes
Join in legions
serriedI
Then, on Sunday,
I suppose,
I'll be beri-beriedl
Chorus.
One need not be intimately familiar with the Japanese character
understand that Kwaw and his feat were forgotten in a very few day
but
a wealthy Daimio,
with
a taste
for observation,
took it into h
head to inquire of Kwaw for what purpose he had entered the count
in
so strange
a manner.
It will simplify matters if I reproduce
axlenso the correspondence, which was carried on by telegram.
(I) Who is your honourable
self, and why has your excellency pa
us cattle the distinguished
compliment of a visit?
(2) This disgusting worm is great Tao.
l humbly beg of your su
lime radiance to trample his slave.
(3)
Regret great toe unintelligible.
(4)
Great Tao—T. A. O.—Tao.
(5) What is the great Tao?
(6) The result of subtracting
the universe from itself.
(7)
Good,
but
this
decaying
dog
cannot
grant
your
honourable
excellency’s sublime desire, but, on the contrary, would earnestly
pray your brilliant
serenity to spit upon his grovelling
“ joro."
(8)
Profound
thought
assures
your
beetle-headed
suppliant
that
your
glorious
nobility
must meet
him before the controversy
can be decided.
(9) True.
Would
your
sublimity
condescend
to defile himself by
entering this muck-sweeper’s miserable hovel?
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