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head to his toes. When I came home from the hospital, I
knelt and made an offering to him, and, as I did so, noticed
that he was growing worse. That plaster
"
Then he paused and glanced downward, as though afraid of
confessing
what he had done.
IMAGE OF LONGEVITY GOD, AND HIS ATTENDANT, THE STORK.
w Go on," said Oto, kindly.
"
I instructed you?
* You put it on your back as
"No, most honorable doctor," murmured the man;
"I did
not, I put it on the god. Would you believe it, in two
days the fissure healed, and now the amiable is deity as sound
as he was the day he had his eyes opened."
This speech proved too much for Fitz, who snickered so
audibly that the fan-maker said,
" Honorable Sir, you may feel inclined to laugh, but indeed
I am not telling you a foolish thing. I am very proud to