Show STUDENT LIFE 16 daughters and in a comer an ox and a donkey “Let’s see what is going to hap- pen” said she The three kings went up to the Child and the shepherds withdrew politely before them But the child motioned to the shepherds to did Old Sephora come near not stir The Child put His little hand first on the head of the women and girls because they are better than the men and suffer more then upon the men themselves and the boys And Mary said to them “Be patient He loves you and has come to suffer with you” Then the white king thought his turn had come but the Child with a gentle movement of the hand called first the black king and then the yellow The black king with his woolly oily hair and broad negro grin came up and offered the newly-bor- n necklaces of fish bones bright colored stones dates and cocoa nuts And Mary said to him “You are not wicked only ignorant Try to imagine what you would be if you were not king in your country Don’t eat men anymore or beat your subjects any more” The yellow slanting-eye- d king offered embroidered silks carved ivory porcelain cups and sacks of tea And Mary said to him “Don’t hide your people any longer Don’t think that all wisdom is found in you and your race And take care of those who have nothing but bad rice to eat” The white king in military dress offered the Child gold of fine workmanship beautifully wrought armor statues and purple bags containing the writings of a certain Plato And Mary said to him “Do not carry on unjust wars Avoid pleasures that harden the heart Make just laws and remember how important it is for all and for your- self that no one be maltreated in your kingdom” Then the Child blessed the shepherds laborers and kings in the order in which he had called them to Him Old Sephora thought to herself “That order is sensible The Child began with those who most need him Yoti can see that he thinks of justice and that he will establish its reign either in this world or in another” His mother too talked very well All the same he didn’t |