Show THE MIRACLE I 1 R A C L OF my L 4 I 1 I 1 copyright mi by Rudyard El elbling pling oh dh fight kaht was the world that he weighed watched in tila his hands oh heavy helvy the tha tale of ills his fleas and aal his I 1 ila ho has pono na fro from in the guildoo and put pub on tho the a fo proui hr roul r oui and departed in of bal rafil avowed note tile white road to ito delhi li Is that mat for h his a I 1 feet at t the tha ml anil m d the ilia kultar must guard euard hire him from h heat e at his home is the campt camp mid and the waste and I 1 the it a or crowd 0 wa he is if mciff tho the way as avowed no hia has looked upon man and hla his eyeballs ortia clear tant T tore use BBS one there here Is 1 one and but one said kaber the th hot mist of doing has bag thinned to a clout iio ha hall MJ taken the ho path for at bet lt him ahlan learn and ana discern ll ceni of 0 his brother th tha clod 0 01 lit his the brute aca big h brother tb dai god he JI has ha cobie io from tho the council and put on OD the ui shroud ud cany can y fiur blui ass A song lions of 0 kaber trans there was ones a nian man in india who nho n ho was prime minister ot of one of ane aehl independent native nativo staten in tho the forth northern pall pait ot of th the country lie ile was a brahmin so no high caste that cadice ceased to have hare any particular parti cula I 1 mean ing tor for him and ills his father hall hail imea been an ail important in the ray gay colored tar tac rac rna and bob tall of 0 an old fashioned hindu blindu court but as puran dass daes grew BMW up tip he realized that tho the ancient 0 of things was changing and that it any one wished to set get on he must island ivelli ucal avith tho the and imitate nil all they believed to be ba good at the llie same namo time it a native off lelal must keep his own masters favor this was a difficult game but the quiet close mouthed brahmin helped by a good english education tat nt bombay university played it coolly and roso step by steep to be prime minister of the little kingdom that Is to may ay ha be held more morcy real power than his master the N lahai when the old kanc who was suspicious of the english their railways and dle died bunin dass tool stool too l high with hta hs young successor who had been tuto icil by an and V pt N 4 A I 1 1 11 ler I 1 4 1 I 1 t 4 1 Z jj V 1 V it I 1 1 I 1 a R 1 k I 1 fr A t 14 k I 1 aci 1 I 1 L 0 e P V I 1 7 1 r P I 1 naja att n C A I 1 7 1 I 1 a it egv 11 iriel I 1 a R t V 6 to pj p 1 ii F 1 V I 1 I 1 it A 74 K i 1 11 N I 1 I 1 A 6 ir 0 na 13 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 re 5 karz t R I 1 I 1 ia F V i V fl ny I 1 11 ka W g 1 ill I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 A 11 ii ng 1 I I 1 ri 1 4 F 1 1 I 1 4 S 1 i AA R P 1 l W I 1 a betse ire going to S asked the priest between them though he always took care that his master should have the credit they established schools for little girls made roads and started state ills dis pen saries sarles and shows of agricultural implements clements ts and published a yearly bluebook on the moral and material pro gross of the state and the foreign office and the government of 0 india were atre delighted very teve few native states slates take up english progress without reservation for or they will not believe as burun doss dass showed shorted he did that what Is cecil for the iho englishmen englishman must be twice as rood good for the asiatic the prime minister became the honored friend of viceroys Vice roys and governors Go vernora and lieuten ant governors and medical missionaries and common missionaries and hard riding english officers who came to shoot in the state preserves as well as aa of whole hosts of 0 tourists who traveled up UD and down india in th the e cold weather showing how things ought to be managed in his space time lie he would endow scholarships tor for the study of medicine and manufactures on strictly english lines and write letters to the pioneer the great indian dally paper explaining lila bis misters masters altris alms and objects at last ahe went to england on a visit and hid had to pay enormous sums to the priests when he came back for or even so high caste a brahmin as burun lost caste by cr crossing assing the deep tea eca in Loc london irdon he met and talked with everyone worth knowing men whose names go all over the world and saw a great deal more than he said bald anything about he was given lion honorary degrees by learned universities andee and he made speeches and a nd talked ot of Il ladu soda reform to eng ish lides in evening dress till all ai london cried otila is the most fascinating mm min we have bave ever berrr met at dinner since clotha cloths were aral laid when he be returned to giue i there was a blaze ot of glory for or the viceroy himself made a special visit to confer upon the he IT Sahar ahira jall tile the grand cross ot of the star of india nil ill dil diamonds monds and ribbons and enamel and at the same eam ceremony while the cannon boomed burun dass was ivas made aa a knight Comann der of 0 the order ot of the indan empire so that ills his name na na stood sir burun dass beai K L C 1 I E that evening at dinner in th the 0 mg 1119 VIC e term tent he stood up with the iradee and a nd the coll collar ar or of the order on lib ills breast and rep replying lillig to the tha toast ot of masters health enado a speech tew few E could have surpassed surp assacl next kionta when the city chy had returned to 10 its tun quiet qu ft he ha did a thing to roi would have drain anoll iol of doing lor for so far as the he worlds anden went want he be died tho jewel td ed order at ills his knighthood went bac it to the indian government and n I 1 now prime F fmc ter was appointed to f the charge 91 Lf fairs cold a great game of 0 general hoja Aln in till all the gubor 1111 the knew I 1 w what hat 1 rl 3 I 1 and the fuw we tout but I 1 indan r ut is the ho one puce yli in the world ane where e a man casi so do as he and nobody IES waw anti tile the iraca dewan sir burun dass X I 1 C 1 I I 1 had petition post lon palace a and lid P power ow er and taken fallen up UD tie he bow and 0 ocic c bre em elored e 0 o ed dress of 0 a Sunn Sunny or holy man was conal dered nothing ile he had len been as the old law becom ne twenty years yeara a yuth twenty years yean a fighter thought be li lid had never carided can led a weapon la ila his alf n an 1114 twenty yeara blead of tt a house houie lio d lie he had used ills his lives wearth and his I 1 power tor for whit hs he know w both lii 0 be I 1 worth he be had takena honor honer when it his ha way he had seen men and catl s tar and near bear sill nl n l mon men avid and eltjes cities bad h ml it t wd up I 1 jd honored him now N bycy he be W would ula lot HI these things go as a roan drops the cloak lie no longer needs behind him AR an lia hu walked tile the city kate fites an antelope skin and brags I 1 handled crutch under hla his arm arid nd a berring boral of polished bron bran coco dr do 1 mer inter in ill hla big hand barefoot alone willi ey tyra ast on the ground around behind him they were irlia Ck lutes from the blea bisa alons in honor of hl snappy or pui run dass dasa smiled all that life le was and ended and lie he tore bore it no more ill w will 1 I or than 0 man bears ears to a color dream beani of the night he fro was aj a ast al a houseless fir man I 1 d I 1 cant depend big on an his big neighbors tor for ills dally daily bread and ana so BO long as 03 there Is 13 it morsell morsel to divide in india neither priest nor beggar starves he h had never gnevo r in his tire life tasted meat arid and ve very ry seldom eaten even elsh A if dve ve pound note would haye have covered his ill personal expenses tor for food through any one of 0 the many years jn in which he was absolute master of millions or of money even r ven when he was being lionized in london he had held before him his dream of pone pence e and quiet the long lone white dusty indian roid road printed nil all over with bare reel feet the incessant slow moving trat lle ile and the sharp smelling wood smoke curling up under the III als trees in the twill twilight 9 lit where the wayfarers wayfare rs sat at thel their r evening meal ineal when the time lima came to make thant dream true the prime minister took the proper steps mid arid in three days you might more easily have found a bubble in the trough of the ble big atlantic sens jeaa than burun diss among amon the roving gathering separating millions of india at night his antelope skin was spread whore where the darkness overtook him sometimes in a Sun Sunry rynal monastery by the roadside sometimes by a mud pillar khrone of kala 11 pr ar where the jogis joels who are another musty division of holy me men n would receive him as they do men who 0 know what eastes castes and divisions ions are arc worth sometime Dom eilmes i on the outskirts ol of it a little hindu village where the children would v steal up with the food their parents had bad prepared and sometimes on the pitch of the bare grazing where the name flame of lit his stick slick ore fire waked the d drowsy goway camels it was all one to burun dass das or burun bhagat its as he called himself now earth people via food were all one but unco con ly hit bla fret feet drew him away northward no laward and e eastward from the buti to kohrak treat from to Kur from to ruenel Sar Ra manah nanah and ihen ben upstream up stream aleis albing ale is the dried bed of the gugger river that nils only when the rain falls in the hnis till one day lie saw the ir far line of the great himalayas then purim bhogal smiled tor for lit be remembered that ills I mother irus of 0 raj gaj put brahmin birth from kulu way a hill ull woman a always ways homesick for or the snows and that the least touch of hit hill blood bloo 1 draws 1 A I mm min at the end back io a where n he bel bacionga longa yonder said pu run bhagat breasting the tha lower slopes of the Sew allks where US inis cacti stand up like seven branched cande candlesticks stIcks yonder I 1 shad sit down and gee gec knowli edse and the ahe cool wind ol of the almi ilacas hayai whIst whistled lei about his ears as he trod dihe road that led to alma the list time he had come that way it hai bad ha I been in ili with a easterlng cavalry escort to visit the gentlest pent lest and most moat affable of at viceroys vice roys and the two had tallied for an am hour together to about mutual friends frenda in london anil and what tho h indian common folk realy really thought ot of things this urns time burun paid no caus cats but leaned on the rail or of the mall i watching that glorious view of the plains spread out fifty arty tnt enles es below ul till a dalve I 1 n madan po policeman iceman acad him he was obstructing traffic and pu ruu run bhagat salaamed sala alla amed re herandy to tio the lie aw because he ha knew the value ot of it anti and was reeking for or a law of his own teen he moved on and slept sept that in an empty hut at chota simla wale h tao looks iss like the very last end ot of the earth but it wis mis only the ot of his jarney t arney he fol followed owed the ahma H ama alayan road the itte ten toot foot track that is blasted out ot of solid no it or strutted out aut on timbers over gulfs eu ta a tha thousand usand teet feet deep that dips into warm wet shut in valleys and climbs out across bare grassy hll hill shou shoulders ders where the sun strikes like a burning burn ns glass or turns through L dripping dirk dark aresu whom the tree terns ferns dress the trunks from head to heel and the pheasant calls to hh As mile mate and he met herd berd men with their the r dogs does and rocks flocks ot of sheep each sheep with w ith a little ittle bag of borax on his back bac k and wandering wan deriTis and cloaked an ard it bank blanketed eted lamas from com coming ing into ind inda a on and envoys of 0 mile solitary hlll postine ing furiously on ring rine streaked and piebald ponies or the cavalcade cn eav alcade of a bhagat rajah paying a visit or else for a clear blear day he awad aou d see nothing more than a black ablack bear grunting grunting and root rooting ing down below in the valley when he first started arted at tho the roar tar t the world word he hid had lett left still rang aln his big ears as the roar of a tunnel funnel rings long lone after the train has ban passed through roush th but before belled put the pass behind ili mill th that at was wag till all done and porn n bhagat was ras R as alone with himself walking wondering and his eyes on the ground tand and his bli thoughts ts with the clouds one ona evening ht he crossed the highest pas pasa the he had met till then it thad been a two days and came cam out on a line line of of an iw peaks thit that belted baited all the horizon mountains from fifteen to twenty thousand beet bagh and boking almost near enough to hit with a stone thought they wire atre liny fifty or sixty miles away tho the pass was crowned with dense dark forest deodar dejdar wa walnut nut wild ch cherry rry w wid id ollit an and if ald WI M near but mostly adar which Is the H himalayan ma cellar arid and anjer tile the shadow of the dodaro todil stood it a ed shrine to kall rha aho is t dursa durga who Is S itala who he Is if sometimes worshiped again 5 t the burun tats dara swept the tha stone alone floor clean smiled et at the grinning statue made himself a little mud Ore place at ine hark back of the abrine ahr na spread his big ao an leavia skin on a bed ot of fresh pine nodes locked his his brass handled handed brutch under his armpit and tit pat down to rest bolow below him the hlll hill slag tell fell away bare and cleared earcil cl for or clifteen hundred teet feet to where a little village of f stone walled houses with roofs of baan earth clum to the sta P tilt all round it the tiny terraced tor raced nelds drills lay jay out like aprons ot of patchwork on the kliers 0 of the tha mountain and cows no than bottles between tho the s ann circles of the threshing thresh lne floors Lo bloking king across the valley tho the eye was wa a deceived by the size elze of thinly things and could rot not at first malize that what seemed to lie low scrub on the tha opposite in flank was in tru truth ill a forest of hundred d toot foot pines pill burun un bharrat saw an datele swoop across the hollow but chor lhor blia bird dwindled to a dot ore it was halfway half way over A few handi of clouds otsune us tail and down aown the v valley alli c catching on I a 1 shoulder boulder ot of the h hills ills or up a and n d d out when they hicy w were ere love level with the head of 0 the paz pars and here shall I 1 find P peace bace I 1 said eald burun Ut 1111 iagal 11 now a hill hit hillman man mak makes L U nothing I 1 ai ot of a few hundred feet up till or down clown and its as soon boon as the villagers saw the smoke in the deser deserted t ad shrine the village priest climbed up the terraced hill sido aide to welcome the stranger ath when e n it ho a met P burun arun bhagat Bh asat eyes the tha eyes of a man used to control thousands sands he bowed to the earth took the be lae eg ag bowl without ft a word and returned to the village saying we have at t list last a holy man never have I 1 seen buch ne h a man mail ile he I 1 Is I 1 ot of the plains but vale pale colored a B brahmin r ahcin of ine ene brah mins then all the housewives of 0 the village laid think you he wilt will stay with us arid and each did her beat to cook the most savory meat meal tor for the 13 bhagat hagat I 1 hlll 1111 food Is very simple but with buckwheat and I 1 indian n dlin corn a and nd rice and red pepper and little fish out ot of the stream in the valley and honey from the flue mm hives built in the stone walls and dried apricots and turmeric ale arid and wild wl ld elner and bannocks ban nocks of hour flour I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 f I 1 I 1 11 I 1 4 t II 11 i I 1 I 1 ill li V I 1 I 1 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