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The Punishment of Shahpesh, the BORDEAUX PART
Persian, On Khipil the Builder
(Continued from page 7.)
And Khipil feared the King, and went to the place where the chair should be, and bent his body in a ølt-| ting posture, eyeing the King, and made pretence to sit in the chair of Shahpesh, as in conspiracy to amuse
bis master..
with fresh flowers!
- DEVELOPMENT.
Commercial Gateway.
To The Atlantic.
The Autonomous Port Authority morning Inks.,
of Bordeaux has been engaged for Oh, while I live, surround mosome time on an extensive pro- gramme of engineering works for Oh, when I die, then bury me in the development of the port, and their bowers!"
for the exploitation of its natural And the King said, "What sayest advantages 44 the commercial thou, O my builder? that is a fair gateway to the Atlantic for a large quotation, applicable to thy feelings, region of South-Western France. jone that expresseth them?"
Chief among those enterprises is a
Then said Shahpesh, "For a token Khipil answered, “'Tis eloquent, passenger landing jetty to permit that I approve by execution of the 10 great King! comprehensiveness of the development of port-of-call would be its portion, but that it traffic and in addition to meet the chair, thou shalt be honoured by re:
nlludeth not to the delight of needs of the 'Sonth American ser maining seated in it up to the hour
chafing."
vices, due to the introduction of of noon; but move thou to the
Then Shahpesh laughed, and cried, large new liners of "L'Atlàntique" right or to the left, showing thy "Chafe not! it is an ill thing and a class, at the outport of Le Verdon. soul insensible of the honour done hideousl This nosegay, ◊ Khipil, The passenger traffic of the Port thee, transfixed thou shalt be with it is for thee to present to thy mis. of Bordeaux, which amounts to be
theas. Truly she will receive. theestween 50,000 and 60,000 embarca- twenty arrows and five."
well after its presentation! I will tions and disembarcations per ans. The King then left him with a have it now sent in thy name, with num, is important among the port's guard of 25 of his bodyguard; and word that thou followest quickly, many activities, and the Port Au they stood around him with bent And for thy nettled noso, surely if thority has recognised the neces bowa, so that Khipil dared not move the whim seize thee that thou de-sity of fostering a movement which from his sitting posture. And the sires its chafing. to thy neighbour is full of promise and capable of masons and the people crowded to is permitted what to thy hand is re much development under favour- see Khipil sitting on his master's fused."
able conditions. Among the chief
7
chair, for it became rumoured about. The King ect a guard upon Khipil desiderata are speed of transfer When they beheld him sitting upon to see that his orders were executed, between ship and shore, and ex- notning, and he trembling to stir for and appointed a time for him to peditious means of inland trans- fear of the lossening of the arrows, the gardens.
port, in order to enable travellers they laughed so that they rolled At the hour indiented Khipil stood to reach their ultimate destina- upon the floor of the hall, and the before Shahpesh again. He was tions with the least possible delay. jechoes of laughter were a thousand-pale, saddened; his tongue drooped Just as, in the case of London, it fold. Surely the arrows of the like the tongue of a heavy bell, that has been found advantageous to guarda swayed with the laughter when it soundeth giveth forth provide“ landing facilities at Til- that shook them.
mournful sounds only: he had also bury, near the mouth of the
And a dark fate before.
But while the principle is the same in both cases, there are ea- sential differences of detail. Til
Now, when the time had expired the look of one battered with many Thames, In connection with Д for his sitting in the chair, beatings. So the King said, "How time-saving journey by rail to the Shahpesh returned to him, and he of the presentation of the flowers of Metropolis, so, at Bordeaux, a new was cramped, pitiable to see; and thy culture, O Khipil?"
landing place is being specially Shahpesh said, "Thou has been ex- He answered, "Surely, O King, constructed at Le Verdon at the lalted above men, O.Khipil! For she received me with wrath, and Ijmouth of the Gironde, in conjunc-| that thou didst execute for thy am shamed by her."
tion with an accelerated train ser} master, has been found fitting for And the King said, "How of my vice direct to Bordeaux. thee."
clemency in the matter of the Then he bade Khipll lead the chafing?" way to the noble gardens of daillance, Khipil answered, "O King of and pleasure that he had planted and splendours! I raade petition to my bury is only 25 miles from Lon- contrived. And Khipil went in that neighbours whom 1 met, accostingdon Bridge, while Le Verdon is state described by the poet, when we them civilly and with imploring, for distant over 60 miles from Bor. go draggingly, with remonstrating I ached to chafe, and it was the very deaux. The landing stage at Til-j members,
raging thirst of desire to chafe that' Knowing a dreadful strength behind, was mine, devouring eagerness for and falling with the tide in the bury is a floating structure, rising solace of chafing. And they chafed They came to the gardens, and me, O King; yet not in those parts Thames, but not otherwise subject At Le behold, these were full of weeds and which throbbed for the chafing, but to disturbing influences.
Verdon, the jetty is rigidly sup nettles, the fountains dry, no tree in those which abhorred it." to be seen-a desert. And Shahpesh
Then Shahpesh smiled and said, ported on solid cylindrical columns in a situation which, despite the 29th Nov. cried, "This is indeed of admirable 'Tis certain that the magnanimity
design, O Khipil! Feelest thou not of monarchs is as the rain that protection afforded by the Medoc the coolness of the fountains?-falleth, the sun that chineth: and in peninsula, cannot be considered as their refreshingness? Truly I am this spot it fertilizeth richness; in completely sheltered,
The jetty at Le Verdon is 88 m.i 23rd Nov. grateful to thee! And these flowers, that encourageth rankness. So art
pluck me now a handful, and tell me thou but a weed, O Khipil! and my (126 ft.) wide, and will carry four lines of rail track with a double- of their perfume."
grace is thy chastisement." Khipil plucked a handful of the
storey maritime railway station Now, the King ceased, not per- nettles that were there in the place secuting Khipil, under pretence of and the necessary baggage-hand- of flowers, and put his nose to them doing him honour
The roadway, and heaping ling equipment. before Shahpesh, till his nose was favours
on him. Three days and which, at the landward end of the reddened; and desire to rub it wax-three nights was Khipil gasping viaduct, is at the same level as the ed in him, and possessed him, and without water, compelled to drink of rail tracks, passes up & ramp, or became a passion, so that he could the drought of the fountain, as an incline, to the level of the upper scarce refrain from rubbing it even honour at the hands of the King. floor of the station, which is in 4th Dec. in the King's presence. And the
And he was seven days and seven the forward part of the jetty. King encouraged him to sniff and nights made to stand with-stretched Engineering. enjoy their fragrance, repeating the arms, as they were the branches of 1st Dec. poet's words:
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Methinks I am a lover and a
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When by the breath of flowers! I am beguiled
From sense of pain, and lulled
.in. odorous sloth.
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The R.M.S. Empress of Russia affairs had languished, and the cur- arrived at Shanghai yesterday at rents of business instead of flowing 8.30 am, left Shanghai to-day at had become stagnant pools. It was
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things, and dig among the roots. The time used is Standard, or mean Truly after Khipil's punishment time of the meridian of 120 deg. Ei there were few in the dominions of (00h. is midnight, 12hrs. is noon." The Shahpesh who sought to win the heights are referred to the datum of honours bestowed by him on gab-the largest scale Admiralty chart of blors and idlers: as again the poet: the place and should be added to the When to loquacious foole with depths given on the chart unless pre-
patience rarely
ceded by an asterisk (*), when” they
I listen, I have thoughts of should be subtracted from the depths.
Khilip'a chair:
His bath, his nosepay, and hie
found I seo-
Himself atretch'd out 68
pomegranate-tres.
And that I am not Shahpesh I
regret, co
November 28 to 29, 1932.
Date
So to inmesh the babbler in his wed.
Well is that wisdom worthy to be
Which raised the Palace of the
Wagging Tongus!
And whose ta punished after the fashion of Shahpesh, the Perafan, on Khipit, the Builder, is said to be one in the Palace of the Waggini Tongue to this time.
THE END.
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