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Show Fenian Flower Worship. A recent traveler in India gives CasseU'i Journal the f oUowing description of flower flow-er worship as practiced by the Persian, in flowing robe of blue, and on his head a sheepskin hat-black, glossy, curly, the fleece of Kar-Kal would saunter in and stand meditatively over every flower he saw, and always as if half in vision. And when the vision was fulfilled, and the ideal flower he was seeking fourd, he would spread his mat and sit before it until the setting of the sun, and then fold up his mat again and go home. And the next night, and night after night, untU that particular flower faded away, he would return to it and bring his friends in ever increasing troops to it, and sit and play the guitar or late before be-fore it, and they would all together pray there, and after prayer still sit before it, sipping sherbet and talking the most hilarious and slocking scandal late mto the moonlight, and so on every evening until the flowar died. Sometimes, by the way of a grind finale, the whole com-pany com-pany would suddenly arise before the flower and serenade it together with an ode from Hafii and depart. |