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Catch That Missing Rhythm
(Continued from Page 7)
blackness of protruding Negroid. he thought, but
"We
WAS
said
wondering," Larry, “if you never heard of a missing language?”
"I don't never hear of it." The lips Cuban was cold.
·
not "It's a mighty old language.” In language. said the professor, negro.
Larry seemed to be speaking to were twelve rhythum. divisions. "Damn Cuban nigger." whisper- himself. "My old granpappy told From the fore-clicks of the Bush-ed Larry. "But you watch his me it's the language that man Barca. Through the babble wrist."
italked before Babel's tower."
was
of Madrasi Tamil to the end-stress Three strands of black, red and The Cuban said nothing. Larry of the South American Tapi-green cord were bound round the talked on: Yamba.
που abreast
Cuban's left wrist. Four red The very first language of this The science of language was shapeless stones hung on the braid, old world," he said "My gran-
with all
science. There swung between a yellowed pappy told me nobody never spoke forward-claw.
it present days. Leastways, hard- The Cuban looked neither left ly nobody. But my granpappy nor right. He stared at his drink. done spoke it. And we's a lorr
Larry edged up.
way from mountains and forests "Voodoo man," he whispered. and jungles. And lions.” "Never hear of the Lion Society?"
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"That missing rhythm," said Larry.
"That inissing rhythm."
And he had looked everywhere. the professor said. Ten years.
"All sides of this world." said Larry.
The professor nodded.
"How?"
Larry said London Docks wax the place. In the alleys and back: streets and pubs. St. Catherine's for the squareneads. West India Docks, the Jamaicans. All sea- tracks lead up the Thames.
"We's a long way from Cuba. The professor remembered. He Mister del Monte," said Larry.
Africa's learned it in Havana.
The Cuban grunted. oldest secret society, they told him. "There ain't no desire to hear And the Lions had come, esoteric, it explicated," said Larry. “No exclusive, with the negro slaves to transistions Just the sounds like the American Indies..
'Good morning, and, good after-
The Lions spoke a secret langu-noon. So's the professor gets age. Not old—ageless.
"Yes!"
They watched the Cuban. "You won't get him to speak." said the professor.
"I got passes”
Larry grunted. *You?"
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He shook hands with the pro-
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drink?" he asked
"Larry Greenaway.”
his missing rhythm” ·
"Think of the benefit to man- kind!" said the professor.
"Bueno!" the Cuban said. Ee stepped back a little.
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THE KING WITHOUT A PRINCE OF WALES
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Touch Weakened
"When I heard you tapping that drum," he said, "I thought! you'd got it. But there was some thing missing. And that rhythm is basic 30 necessary. I am certain that language is spoken to-day Somewhere. But where ?**
"When you can't find something
"The first ones. My granpapy nowhere," said Larry, "then you knowed something until he got re- got to look on your front doorstep.ligion."
The Cuban stopped talking. He And, sure enough, there it is." Larry moved his heel on the looked at Larry and the professor.
The children will miss him brass footrail. He palm fell without anger. He turned and
most, for, closeted with Minis- hesitant against the bar.
left the bar.
ters, he cannot be as tangible Under grey-black lids, small
Larry looked foolish. black eyes
round. The "Why." he said, "that's only-
In assuming the weighty and as thrilling a figure to them as he was when he walked the Cuban watched them.
"Yes," said the professor. "It's responsibilities of & Sovereign world more or less a free man. We are stunned by the Larry again let his palm fall the same rhythm you were playing the Prince of yesterday must
on the drum when I met you” weaken his touch with many changes which are forced upon
"I must've got it from my gran- aspects of the life of the coùn- pappy." said Larry. "I must'vetry. He cannot hope to follow us in this time of anxiety and distress. In our bewilderment 2learned and not learned. Without the call of every old sympathy we do not yet fully realise that and interest, and many causes the Accession of a new King listening.":
"Sabconscious mentation," said must suffer without a Prince leaves us with such a strange the professor...
of Wales to sponsor them.
and unwelcome gap in the gal- walked up the corridor. Larry lery of our leaders.
We have grown used to hav- “Well, sir!" Larry said. "Looks followed. They went through
ing the inspiration of a Prince like we ain't going to find that door.
of Wales. This last one has And it took the porter Bowne missing rhythm to-day!”
land. He has led us in The professor did not seem to to persuade the nurse that they been the first young man of the laughter; and he has taught us mind. He leaned against the wall had not left the hospital.
**You couldn't mistake that that we can be both grave and "Language rhythm," he said. "Yes, I feel queer."
pair," the porter said.
gay and lose nothing for being searching
so versatile. They waited for their drinks.
"Those beers weren't no good," The nurse who was
them W23 annoyed. Very
Three Laws The professor did not want his Larry agreed. "I'll go get a taxi for and agreed.
Tantalising rhythm. Staggering. angry. But now she was astonish-
This all passes. The school- "You ever hear of the rhythm But a language rhythm.
Most ed. Amazed as she looked
children may no longer sing of life, Mister del Monte?" asked exist, to-day too.
The professor Larry and the professor.
Larry, was kneeling between the Among our ancient moan- Larry
looked up at the noise. "I don't never hear of it.". said: A group of men argued on the cots, tapping with his kickles,tains, because there is no Ithe Cuban.
pavement opposite. They shook The professor stood by with a worPrince of Wales to be a focus
for their song. of the sailing barges silent.
"Professor," said Larry, "You their fists.
The professor saw ried probationer. An amused an- one wanted to talk
tell Mister del Monte here of the them like shadows on a white wall dience, chuckled around...
proba- talked had no rhythm.
Larry waved side the Blurred, foreign. And rhythmical "Seems like I was wrong," ad-rhythm. Just like to me."
The professor took a deep breath mitted Larry. "But let's try one and spoke. He stuttered, them
"Language rhythm," said the tioner's protests.
"Yes, it professor!" he said. professor. (more pub."
He stepped off the pavement and "We was too young to remember The professor said he was tired was clear. He told the Cuban of
You never met them much. I never of beer and agreed. They listened the great rhythm of life. Rises into the taxi as it cruised round
looked that way. But this is sure structures.
the missing rhythin.” to the talk around them. Nothing and falls of cosmic The professor sipped his beer and Periodicities of planets and comets
The professor said children weré and stars. The undulating cycle professor in his arms. The tarraing to speak before the Tower the little doga knew he had enough.
of soil micro-organisme. The eye- pro-ds of the Cuban opened. His went to the hospital "hope of Babel was raised. And when
“Rafael del Monte." replied the Cuban. "Pleased to meet you."
Larry grinned. The Cuban watched.. Impassive.
"Meet the professor," said Larry, "Pleased," said the Cuban- "The professor," said Larry, "is found. Fastly intrested in. languages."
"And we got to catch missing rhythm,” Larry said.
Looking on your doorstep is long work if the doorstep is the Port of London. There were fifty miles of docks down the Fool toi
professor Tilbury, the Cobble stones make a long way longer. Seamen thought he was strange too
"Our third visit," said the pro- fessor. "but my last."
"Just as you say," answered Larry.
Bo'suns answered them curtly.
Ships' watchmen were sour. Crewn
No
Those who
"No more beer, said the
fessor.
Larry whispered quickly. "See that guy?”"..
A tall man leaned on the bar, bony yet broad. The professor
"Most intresting subject," agre- led the Cuban..
face was creased, not waren now. He was interested, pea
"Another drink," said Larry. The professor told of the whole And
notired tight grey skin and theythmic scheme of things.
EMPRESS OF BRITAIN
the rhythm of languages.
"But," said the professor, "there is one rhythm missing".
**The
the corner.
“Lawdy!” said Larry, with the
this ain't no dead man's rhythm"
driver.
1
As a King, our monarch will become significant to us in a new way. But we shall come to regret the loss of the Prince of Wales
When he was a little boy, he once said, "When I'm King. I
"No one shall cut the tails of “
"There shall be no more fish- bearing-
shall make three laws:
“No one shall atise"
"Drop too much" said the taxi- the single world language scattering with hooks
led that did not `change”
"The children's language did not reins to hurt the horses."
These may not be enough change," the professor said. Its with which to rule 27 is the same. The basic rhythm
The nurse thought so tou
"Only, a few bruises,” she said. The professor mouthed at the sal volatile. Larry sat with him; on a bench in the hall.
"Better?"
Empire, but they are a good of the children's. "way.” ..
foundation for the character of Sure," Larry said. What a ruler; and whether it is as missed is that you got to keep on Prince of Wales that we remem- danzalting in the tapping. That ber him or as King Edward missing rhythm,” said:
Disappointed, the professor because of children, always draw VIII. that we welcome him, we Larry (Continued from Page 10.)
*After heating" the Lioning deep breaths.” Alfred B. Wade, Mrs. Wade, Miss "La gran siete!" exclaimed the said.
can be certain that he will not Ethel V. Wald, A. H. Walton, Arnold Cuban.
Innguage. A basic rhythmn muust Larry cracked his knackes on forsake the motto of his minori Walton, G. W. Weber, Mrs. Weber, "Sure, that's right, Larry said. exist
the floor. A ty, Ich Dien, because he has had Mrz. Frederick E. Webster, Mrs. C.
It began, serious determined to surrender the illustrious title "Another drink?** Wessels, Mr. Welding P White,
“Do you hear anything?" he a weary roll... It pansed to bres of Prince of Wales. Mrs. White, C. A Whowell, Mrs. Louise O. Wibel, Mrs, Minale Davi- "It's the mightiest pity ever!" (äsked." son, Wilcox, Man Katherine R. Wi-said, the Cuban. Hams, Mrs. W. Wilson, Alan L
"All that's missing,” said Larry, Wolfe, Commandant Comte Ball de
"is oge language. F. Wood, Mrs. Robert F. Wren, L The Cuban was silent. Suddenly
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"That's basle, essential
The
**There's a rhythms: haunting quickmed. Sharp glad hops. It missing rhythm," said the pro {me," the professor answered. He was the rhythm of the children's | Lemor.