Kai Lung Beneath The Mulberry – Tree – Ernest Bramah (1)

‘Since the accompanying winds must irrefutably be kept in some remote and hitherto inaccessible spot where the spirits themselves reside it is: in- exorable that if a means can be discovered of attaching oneself to a passing wind not only would that secret and highly-favoured confine be reached but it would then be possible to enter into unre- strained conversation with the Beings in person on a variety of congenial topics.”

“The subject relating fo the exact point of our illimitable Empire, where the various spirit-winds are, so to speak, kept in bondage—and to which they must sooner or later return or what indeed becomes of them afterwards?—is one that has often engaged our speculative leisure,’’ admitted the Sublime en- couragingly. ““The detail of conversing satisfactorily with Beings, however, is one of some delicacy.” “Yet inasmuch as the Wearer of the Imperial Yellow is on terms of admitted equality with several grades of deities themselves ——” “Hypothetically such a condition undeniably prevails and this orthodox Holder of the Five- clawed Emblem is wholly unassailed by philosophi- cal doubts so long as he can feel the unyielding earth Py firmly established beneath the Dynastic Sandals,” agreed the one who thus referred to his high office, becoming somewhat more familiar than strict etiquette prescribed as he inhaled the subject.

“But in the unstable medium of the Upper Air or even if exploring the pathless wastes of Middle Distance certain qualmous thoughts might obtrude as to the exact scope of one’s omnipotence. How- ever, the occasion is scarcely likely to arise, for the technical difficulty of securely attaching a weighty and substantial body to so nebulous and elusive ‘ an object as a passing wind must be regarded as insuperable.” ‘In the past that may well have been the case,”’ replied the stranger darkly.

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First published 1940 Reprinted 1942 Reprinted 1944 Reprinted. 1946 Reprinted 1951 Letchworth Public Librery ‘PRINTED BY THE REPLIKA PROCESS IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LUND HUMPHRIES LONDON : BRADFORD CONTENTS Tue Story oF PrINcE YING, PARAMOUNT RULER OF THE STATE OF FuRTHER YIN: THE OccaAsION OF HIS SEARCH FOR MERIT AND THE MANNER OF HIS ULTIMATE Passinc HENCE, TOGETHER WITH SOMETHING OF WHAT Took PLACE MEANWHILE I Prince Ying, the Virtuous Mei, and the pace Pursuit of Worthiness II The Three Recorded Judgments of Prince Ying, from the Inscribed Scroll of Mou Tao, the Beggar 56 III The Ignoble Alliance_of Lin T’sing with the Outlaw Fang Wang, and how it Affected the Destinies 95 IV Tue Story or Yin Ho, Hoa-MI, AND THE MAGIcIAN 130 vi CONTENTS Vv Tue Story or Ton Hi, Precious GEM, AND THE INcOoNsPICcUOUS ELEPHANT VI Tue Story oF SAM-TsO, THE Famity CALLED WonG, AND THE WILLING BUFFALO Vil Tue Story oF SHo CuI, THE NOo-LONGER MeErRcHANT No Hon, AND THE DOCILE LINNETS VIII Tue Story oF THE Port Lao Princ, CHun Sutn’s DAUGHTER FA, AND THE FIGHTING CRICKETS PAGE 176 217 258 286 I THE STORY OF PRINCE YING, VIRTUOUS MEI, AND THE PURSUIT OF WORTHINESS “In order to appreciate more fully the various involvements concerned in the legendary tale which a scrupulous and uninventive recorder of actual facts has selected for recital on this gratifying occasion, it is necessary to take into account the usages and conditions of primitive simplicity existing in the State of Yin at that distant era of what has been aptly termed ‘our celestial and_richly- embroidered country’s crudely-chiselled narrative’.”” Thus auspiciously Kai Lung responded to a well- sustained request that after a surfeit of round-bodied merchants, occupied chiefly with their wares, officials of not very imposing rank, unsuccessful students—no matter how hard-striving—earth- tillers, redolent of their toil, stall-keepers and beggars of the street, hired assassins, travelling minstrels, actors, sleeye-snatchers and persons of no particular kind, she would gratify their attentive ears with a story in which one of really exalted standing played an essential part, so that they might learn how people belonging to a class widely distant from their own ordered their doings.

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