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n ND it came to pass in the third year of the great war that the people of the land of Eng did cry out with a great voice, saying : Behold it is not well with them that fly. For they are as sheep before the shearers when they must meet he whom we call the Hun, for that the House of the Air is an house divided against itself, wherein of the red robe and the blue men say that each mattereth not to the other. And they lifted up their voices and cried to them in autho- rity over them : Give us, we pray thee, an House of the Air in which there shall be no more strife, and where no man's hand shall be against his fellow. And, behold, the cry which went up was so great that Herbert, who was the chief counsellor of the King, took counsel with his fellows and said unto one Nathaniel : Lo, it is for thee to square up the mess in this, the House of the Air. And Nathaniel answered and said : But, lord, wherewith am I to do this thing, since thou givest me no authority over these people of the Air ? And Herbert, the chief counsellor, made answer with rude gestures and said : Go to, knowest thou not that this that we do now meaneth nothing, and is but to soothe the clamour of them that cry out in the public places ? So it came to pass that Nathaniel betook himself unto the House of the Air, and said unto those who dwelt there : Do thou this. But they laughed him to scorn and said : Who art thou, anyway, and where is thy authority without which no" man can cut any ice in the land of Eng ? For that was the manner of speech in the land of Eng in that time. And Nathaniel went forth into the market place and cast dust on his head, saying : Woe is me that Herbert hath let me down in this way. And in the fulness of time the people of the land of Eng cried out against Herbert, and said : Behold, we are fed up with thy ways. Thou didst tell us aforetime to wait and see. Lo, we have waited and watched until our eyes be sore, but we have seen nothing. Get thee hence from the high places, and give us a man who will hustle with an exceeding great hustle. And Herbert got, and in his place one Jarge, who was of the county of Limehouse, became the chief counsellor of the King. And after many days the people cried unto Jarge, saying : Behold, thou hast done well, but still there is the matter of the House of the Air which progresseth not. Wotabartit ? Which again is after the speech of the people of the land of Eng. So Jarge gat him busy and sent for Dra-cow, the son of Peerzon, who was one of the King's builders of bridges and of aque- ducts and all manner of great works in the land. And he said unto him : Lo, there is a great strafe in the House of the Air, in which the hand of all men is raised - each against the other. That mattereth not a cir- cumstance, save that the people cry out for the blood of them in authority, saying : Do something or get ! And, behold, Al-fred, the maker of cabinets, of whom thou knowest aforetime, hath even an eye upon us, and the writing is upon the wall. Therefore, I pray thee, see to it that the strafe ceaseth, and I wrill give thee certain authority wherewith to still the clamour of them that dwell in the House of the Air. And Dra-cow did even as Jarge had said, and the people declared one to another : Verily, this is a good egg, this thing that Jarge hath done. But it came to pass that certain of those who sat in the councils of the land of Eng and certain of the scribes who had cunning in the ways of them that dwelt in the House of the Air, said : Yea, even though this be good that Dra-cow doeth, yet it is not enough, for is not the House of the Air divided within itself even unto this day ? Wherefore, then, do ye not make one house and place over it one skilled in counsel and of great cunning in the ways of men ? And there was one among the scribes who cried as a voice in the wilderness : What expect ye from an house like that of the Air, where all men have each his own end to serve and where even are the dwellers clad in all kinds of divers raiment and each weareth the symbol he loveth best. Give us, we pray thee, an house where all men are clad in one garb and where all weareth one symbol of their servitude to the King. And, behold, all this seemed good in the eyes of Jarge and the counsellors of the King, and it was even so. Then Jarge spake unto Al-fred, the maker of Cabinets, who had returned to the land of Eng from a far country, saying : Lo, get thee to the House of the Air, where thou wilt find things for thy hands to do. But Al-fred winked him his dexter eye when the words of Jarge smote upon his ears, and said privily unto himself : Am I a fool that he should seek to muzzle me thus ? So Al-fred, the maker of Cabinets, took him his tablets and wrote unto Jarge saying : Behold, there is nothing doing. And he also sent these words which he had written unto Jarge to the public scribes and the tellers of tales in the market places of the land of Eng, and these told unto all men of the writings of Al-fred. And when Dra-cow heard of these things he was sore angered, but being of the race of them that are gentle he paraded not his anger, but said soothly unto Jarge: Behold, is thy servant a dog that thou shouldest do these things ? And Jarge had no answer to these sayings. Now Al-fred, the maker of Cabinets, had even a brother whose name was Ha-rold and to him cometh Al-fred privily saying : Thou hast done well in the making of raiment and of trappings for the hosts of the King. Lo, tell me I pray thee, shall I speak unto Jarge that he shall set thee in authority over the House of the Air ? For, he will do this thing if I counsel him, lest I say in the public places and in the writings that JARGE MUST GO. And Ha-rold made answer and said : Brother, thou art wise beyond the wisdom of all men. There is none among all the multitude of the counsellors of the King that is a circumstance unto thee. Yea, even the ser- pent hath not thy cunning. Let it be as thou sayest. And behold, all these things came to pass in the land, even as Al-fred, the maker of Cabinets, had said. And Ha-rold entered into the House of the Air, and are they not written in the chronicles of the land of Eng - the things that Ha-rold, the brother of Al-fred, maker of Cabinets, did at that time ? CYNICUS. • jst je »." - I 34CW
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