The Idiot
THE IDIOT by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Author of "Coffee and Repartee" "The Water Ghost, and Others" "Three Weeks in Politics" Etc. Illustrated New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1895 Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.
with one will, rising under the net, let us fly off with it: for indeed
'Small things wax exceeding mighty, being cunningly combined:--
Furious elephants are fastened with a rope of grass-blades twined.'
"And it is written, you know,
'Let the household hold together, though the house be ne'er so small;
Strip the rice-husk from the rice-grain, and it groweth not at all.'
Having pondered this advice, the Pigeons adopted it; and flew away with
the net. At first the fowler, who was at a distance, hoped to recover
them, but as they passed out of sight with the snare about them he gave
up the pursuit. Perceiving this, the Pigeons said,
"What is the next thing to be done, O King?"
"A friend of mine," said Speckle-neck, "lives near in a beautiful forest
on the Gundaki. Golden-skin is his name--the King of the Mice--he is the
one to cut these bonds."
Resolving to have recourse to him, they directed their flight to the
hole of Golden-skin--a prudent monarch, who dreaded danger so much that
he had made himself a palace with a hundred outlets, and lived always in
it. Sitting there he heard the descent of the pigeons, and remained
silent and alarmed.
THE IDIOT by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Author of "Coffee and Repartee" "The Water Ghost, and Others" "Three Weeks in Politics" Etc. Illustrated New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1895 Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.