deeper significance of its acts. The solicitous2 warning of
one passing inwards and the complication occasioned by his
ill-chosen words. Concerning that victory already dimly
foreshadowed.
VENERATED3 SIRE,—This barbarian4 game of agile5 grass-hoppers is not conducted in the best spirit of a really well-balanced display, and although the one now inscribing6 his emotions certainly achieved a wide popularity, and wore his fig7 leaves with becoming modesty8, he has never since been quite free from an overhanging doubt that the compliments and genial9 remarks with which he was assailed10 owed their modulation11 to an unsubstantial atmosphere of two-edged significance which for a period enveloped12 all whom he approached; as in the faces of maidens14 concealed15 behind fans when he passed, the down-drawn lips and up-raised eyes of those of fuller maturity17, the practice in most of his own kind of turning aside, pressing their hands about their middle parts, and bending forward into a swollen18 attitude devoid19 of grace, on the spur of a sudden remembrance, and in the auspicious20 but undeniably embarrassing manner in which all the unfledged ones of the village clustered about his retiring footsteps, saluting21 him continually as one “James,” upon whom had been conferred the gratifying title of “Sunny.” Thus may the outline of the combat be recounted.
From each opposing group eleven were chosen as a band, and we of our company putting on a robe of distinctive22 green (while they elected to be regarded as an assemblage of brown crickets), we presently came to a suitable spot where the trial was to be decided23. So far this person had reasonably assumed that at a preconcerted signal the contest would begin, all rising into the air together, uttering cries of menace, bounding unceasingly and in every way displaying the dexterity24 of our proportions. Indeed, in the reasonableness of this expectation it cannot be a matter for reproach to one of the green grass-hoppers—who need not be further indicated—that he had already begun a well-simulated note of challenge to those around clad in brown, and to leap upwards25 in a preparatory essay, when the ever-alert Sir Philip took him affectionately by the arm, on the plea that the seclusion26 of a neighbouring pavilion afforded a desirable shade.
Beyond that point it is difficult to convey an accurately27 grouped and fully28 spread-out design of the encounter. In itself the scheme and intention of counterfeiting29 the domestic life and rivalries30 of two opposing bands of insects was pleasantly conceived, and might have been carried out with harmonious31 precision, but, after the manner of these remote tribes, the original project had been overshadowed and the purity of the imagination lost beneath a mass of inconsistent detail. To this imperfection must it be laid that when at length this person was recalled from the obscurity of the pagoda32 and the alluring33 society of a maiden13 of the village, to whom he was endeavouring to expound34 the strategy of the game, and called upon to engage actively35 in it, he courteously36 admitted to those who led him forth37 that he had not the most shadowy-outlined idea of what was required of him.
Nevertheless they bound about his legs a frilled armour38, ingeniously fashioned to represent the ribbed leanness of the insect’s shank, encased his hands and feet in covers to a like purpose, and pressing upon him a wooden club indicated that the time had come for him to prove his merit by venturing alone into the midst of the eleven brown adversaries39 who stood at a distance in poised41 and expectant attitudes.
Assuredly, benignant one, this sport of contending locusts began, as one approached nearer to it, to wear no more pacific a face than if it had been a carnage of the hurl-headlong or the curved-hook varieties. In such a competition, it occurred to him, how little deference42 would be paid to this one’s title of “Established Genius,” or how inadequately43 would he be protected by his undoubted capacity of leaping upwards, and even in a sideway direction, for no matter how vigorously he might propel himself, or how successfully he might endeavour to remain self-sustained in the air, the ill-destined moment could not be long deferred44 when he must come down again into the midst of the eleven—all doubtless concealing45 weapons as massive and fatally-destructive as his own. This prospect46, to a person of quiescent47 taste, whose chief delight lay in contemplating48 the philosophical49 subtleties50 of the higher Classics, was in itself devoid of glamour51, but with what funereal52 pigments53 shall he describe his sinking emotions when one of his own band, approaching him as he went, whispered in his ear, “Look out at this end; they kick up like the very devil. And their man behind the wicket is really smart; if you give him half a chance he’ll have your stumps54 down before you can say ‘knife.’” Shorn of its uncouth55 familiarity, this was a charitable warning that they into whose stronghold I was turning my footsteps—perhaps first deceiving my alertness with a proffered56 friendship—would kick with the ferocity of untamed demons57, and that one in particular, whose description, to my added despair, I was unable to retain, was known to possess a formidable knife, with which it was his intention to cut off this person’s legs at the first opportunity, before he could be accused of the act. Truly, “To one whom he would utterly58 destroy Buddha59 sends a lucky dream.”
Behind lay the pagoda (though the fact that this one did admittedly turn round for a period need not be too critically dwelt upon), with three tiers of maidens, some already waving their hands as an encouraging token; on each side a barrier of prickly growth inopportunely presented itself, while in front the eleven kicking crickets stood waiting, and among them lurked62 the one grasping a doubly-edged blade of a highly proficient63 keenness.
There are occasional moments in the life of a person when he as the inward perception of retiring for a few paces and looking back in order to consider his general appearance and to judge how he is situated64 with regard to himself, to review his past life in a spirit of judicial65 severity, to arrange definitely upon a future composed entirely66 of acts of benevolence67, and to examine the working of destiny at large. In such a scrutiny68 I now began to understand that it would perhaps have been more harmonious to my love of contemplative repose69 if I had considered the disadvantages closer before venturing into this barbarian region, or, at least, if I had used the occasion profitably to advance an argument tending towards a somewhat fuller allowance of taels from your benevolent70 sleeve. Our own virtuous71 and flower-strewn land, it is true, does not possess an immunity72 from every trifling73 drawback. The Hoang Ho—to concede specifically the existence of some of these—frequently bursts through its restraining barriers and indiscriminately sweeps away all those who are so ill-advised as to dwell within reach of its malignant74 influence. From time to time wars and insurrections are found to be necessary, and no matter how morally-intentioned and humanely75 conducted, they necessarily result in the violation77, dismemberment or extirpation78 of many thousand polite and dispassionate persons who have no concern with either side. Towns are repeatedly consumed by fire, districts scourged80 by leprosy, and provinces swept by famine. The storms are admittedly more fatal than elsewhere, the thunderbolts larger, more numerous, and all unerringly directed, while the extremities81 of heat and cold render life really uncongenial for the greater part of each year. The poor, having no money to secure justice, are evilly used, whereas the wealthy, having too much, are assailed legally by the gross and powerful for the purpose of extorting82 their riches. Robbers and assassins lurk61 in every cave; vast hoards83 of pirates blacken the surface of every river; and mandarins of the nine degrees must make a livelihood84 by some means or other. By day, therefore, it is inadvisable to go forth and encounter human beings, while none but the shallow-headed would risk a meeting with the countless85 demons and vampires86 which move by night. To one who has spent many moons among these foreign apparitions87 the absence of drains, roads, illustrated88 message-parchments, maidens whose voices may be heard protesting upon ringing a wire, loaves of conflicting dimensions, persons who strive to put their faces upon every advertisement, pens which emit fountains when carried in the pocket, a profusion89 of make-strong foods, and an Encyclopaedia90 Mongolia, may undoubtedly91 be mentioned as constituting a material deficiency. Affairs are not being altogether reputably conducted during the crisis; it can never be quite definitely asserted what the next action of the versatile92 and high-spirited Dowager Empress will be; and here it is freely contended that the Pure and Immortal93 Empire is incapable94 of remaining in one piece for much longer. These, and other inconveniences of a like nature, which the fastidious might distort into actual hardships, have never been denied, yet at no period of the nine thousand years of our civilisation95 has it been the custom to lure96 out the unwary, on the plea of an agreeable entertainment, and then to abandon him into the society of eleven club-bearing adversaries, one of whom may be depicted97 as in the act of imparting an unnecessary polish to the edge of his already preternaturally acute weapon, while those of his own band offer no protection, and three tiers of very richly-dressed maidens encourage him to his fate by refined gestures of approval.
Doubtless this person had unconsciously allowed his inner meditations98 to carry him away, as it may be expressed, for when he emerged from this strain of reverie it was to discover himself in the chariot-road and—so incongruously may be the actions when the controlling intelligence is withdrawn—even proceeding99 at a somewhat undignified pace in a direction immediately opposed to an encounter with the brown locusts. From this mortifying101 position he was happily saved by emerging from these thought-dreams before it was too late to return, and, also, if the detail is not too insignificant102 to be related, by the fact that certain chosen runners from his own company had reached a point in the road before him, and now stood joining their outstretched arms across the passage and raising gravity-dispelling cries. Smiling acquiescently, therefore, this person returned in their midst, and receiving a new weapon, his own club having been absent-mindedly mislaid, he again set forth warily104 to the encounter.
Yet in this he did not altogether neglect a discreet105 prudence106. The sympathetic person to whom he was indebted for the pointed107 allusion108 had specifically declared that they who used their feet with the desperate savagery109 of baffled spectres guarded the nearer limits of their position, the intention of his timely hint assuredly being that I should seek to approach from the opposite end, where, doubtless, the more humane76 and conciliatory grass-hoppers were assembled. Thus guided I now set forth in a widely-circuitous direction, having the point where I meant to open an attack clearly before my eyes, yet seeking to deliver a more effective onslaught by reaching it to some extent unperceived and to this end creeping forward in the protecting shadow of the long grass and untrimmed herbage.
Whether the one already referred to had incapably110 failed to express his real meaning, or whether he was tremulous by nature and inordinately111 self-deficient, concerns the narration112 less than the fact that he had admittedly produced a state of things largely in excess of the actual. There is no longer any serviceable pretext113 for maintaining that those guarding any point of their position were other than mild and benevolent, while the only edged weapon displayed was one courteously produced to aid this person’s ineffectual struggles to extricate114 himself when, by some obscure movement, he had most ignobly115 entangled116 his pigtail about the claws of his sandal.
Ignorant of this, the true state of things, I was still advancing subtly when one wearing the emblems118 of our band appeared from among the brown insects and came towards me. “Courage!” I exclaimed in a guarded tone, raising my head cautiously and rejoiced to find that I should not be alone. “Here is one clad in green bearing succour, who will, moreover, obstinately119 defend his stumps to the last extremity120.”
“That’s right,” replied the opportune60 person agreeably; “we need a few like that. But do get up on your hind16 legs and come along, there’s a good fellow. You can play at bears in the nursery when we get back, if you want.”
Certainly one can simulate the movements of wild animals in a market-garden if the impersonation is thought to be desirable, yet the reasonable analogy of the saying is elusive121 in the extreme, and I followed the ally who had thus betrayed my presence with a deep-set misgiving122 although in the absence of a more trustworthy guide, and in the suspicion that some point of my every ordinary strategy had been inept124, I was compelled to mould myself identically into his advice.
Scarcely had he left me, and I was endeavouring to dispel103 any idea of treachery towards those about by actions of graceful125 courtesy, when one—unworthy of burial—standing126 a score of paces distant, (to whom, indeed, this person was at the moment bowing with almost passionate79 vehemence127, inspired by the conviction that he, for his part, was engaged in a like attention,) suddenly cast a missile—which, somewhat double-facedly, he had hitherto held concealed in his closed hand—with undeviating force and accuracy. So unexpected was the movement, so painfully-impressed the vindictive128 contact, that I should have instinctively129 seized the offensively-directed object and contemptuously hurled130 it back again, if the consequence of the blow had not deprived my mind of all retaliatory131 ambitions. In this emergency was manifested a magnanimous act worthy123 of the incense132 of a poem, for a person standing immediately by, seeing how this one was balanced in his emotions, picked up the missile, and although one of the foremost of the opposing band, very obligingly flung it back at the assailant. Even an outcast would not have passed this without a suitable tribute, and turning to him, I was remarking appreciatively that men were not divided by seas and wooden barriers, but by the unchecked and conflicting lusts133 of the mind, when the unclean and weed-nurtured traitor134 twenty paces distant, taking a degraded advantage from this person’s attitude, again propelled his weapon with an even more concentrated perfidy135 than before. At this new outrage136 every brown cricket shrank from the attitude of alert vigour137 which hitherto he had maintained, and as though to disassociate themselves from the stain of complicity all crossed over and took up new positions.
Up to this point, majestic138 head, in order to represent the adventure in its proper sequence, it has been advisable to present the details as they arose before the eyes of a reliable and dispassionate gazer. Now, however, it is no less seemly to declare that this barbarian sport of leaping insects is not so discreditably shallow as it had at first appeared, while in every action there may be found an apt but hidden symbol. Thus the presence of the two green locusts in the midst of others of a dissimilar nature represents the unending strife139 by which even the most pacific are ever surrounded. The fragile erection of sticks (behind which this person at first sought to defend himself until led into a more exposed position by one garbed140 in white,) may be regarded as the home and altar, and adequately depicts141 the hollowness of the protection it affords and the necessity of reliantly emerging to defy an invader142 rather than lurking143 discreditably among its recesses144. The missile is the equivalent of a precise and immediate100 danger, the wooden club the natural instinct for defence with which all living creatures are endowed, so that when the peril145 is for the time driven away the opportunity is at hand for the display of virtuous amusements, the exchanging of hospitality, and the beating of professional drums as we would say. Thus, at the next attack the one sharing the enterprise with me struck the missile so proficiently146 that its recovery engaged the attention of all our adversaries, and then began to exhibit his powers by running and leaping towards me. Recognising that the actual moment of the display had arrived, this person at once emitted a penetrating147 cry of concentrated challenge, and also began to leap upwards and about, and with so much energy that the highly achieved limits of his flight surprised even himself.
As for the bystanders, esteemed148, those who opposed us, and the members of our own band, although this leaping sportiveness is a competition more regarded and practised among all orders than the pursuit of commercial eminence149, or even than the allurements150 of the sublimest151 Classics, it may be truly imagined that never before had they witnessed so remarkable152 a game cricket. From the pagoda a loud cry of wonder acclaimed153 the dexterity of this person’s efforts; the three tiers of maidens climbed one upon another in their anxiety to lose no detail of the adventure, and outstanders from distant points began to assemble. The brown enemy at once abandoned themselves to a panic, and for the most part cast themselves incapably to the ground, rolling from side to side in an access of emotion; the two arbiters154 clad in white conferred together, doubtless on the uselessness of further contest, while the ally who had summoned me to take a part instead of being encouraged to display his agility155 in a like manner continued to run slavishly from point to point, while I overcame the distances in a series of inspired bounds.
In the meanwhile the sounds of encouragement from the ever-increasing multitude grew like the falling of a sudden coast storm among the ripe leaves of a tea-plantation, and with them the voices of many calling upon my name and inciting156 me to further and even higher achievements reached my ears. Not to grow small in the eyes of these estimable persons I continued in my flight, and abandoning all set movements and limits, I began to traverse the field in every direction, becoming more proficient with each effort, imparting to myself a sideway and even backward motion while yet in the upper spaces, remaining poised for an appreciable157 period, and lightly, yet with graceful ease, avoiding the embraces of those who would have detained me. Undoubtedly I could have maintained this supremacy158 until our band might justly have claimed the reward, had not the flattering cries of approval caused an indiscreet mistake, for the alarm being spread in the village that a conflagration159 of imposing160 ferocity was raging, an ornamental161 chariot conveying a band of warriors162 clad in brass163 armour presently entered into the strife, and discovering no fire to occupy their charitable energies they misguidedly honoured this offensive person by propelling a solid column of the purest and most refreshing164 water against his ignoble165 body when at the point of his highest flight. This introduction of a thunderbolt into the everyday life of an insect must be of questionable166 authenticity167, yet not feeling sufficiently168 instructed in the lesser169 details of the sportiveness to challenge the device, I suffered myself to be led towards the pavilion with no more struggling than enough to remove the ignominy of an unresisting surrender, pleasantly remarking to those who bore me along that to a person of philosophical poise40 the written destiny was as apparent in the falling leaf as in the rising sun, pointing the saying thus: “Although the Desert of Shan-tz is boundless170, and mankind number a million million, yet in it Li-hing encountered his mother-in-law.” Changing to meet another of our company setting forth with a club to make the venture, I was permitted for a moment to engage him; whereupon thrusting into his hand a leather charm against ill-directed efforts, and instructing him to bind171 it about his head, I encouraged him with the imperishable watch-word of the Emperor Tsin Su, “The stars are indeed small, but their light carries as far as that of the full moon.”
At the steps of the pagoda so great was the throng172 of those who would have overwhelmed me with their gracious attention, that had not this person’s neck become practically automatic by ceaseless use of late, he would have been utterly unequal to the emergency. As it was, he could only bestow173 a superficial hand-wave upon a company of gold-embroidered musicians who greeted his return with appropriate melody, and a glance of well-indicated regret that he had no fuller means of conveying his complicated emotions, in the direction of the uppermost tier of maidens. Then the awaiting Sir Philip took him firmly towards the inner part of the pavilion, and announced, so adroitly174 and with such high-spirited vigour had this one maintained the conflict, that it had been resolutely175 agreed on all sides not to make a test of his competence176 any further.
Thereupon a band of very sumptuously177 arrayed nymphs drew near with offerings of liquid fat and a variety of crimson178 fruit, which it is customary to grind together on the platter—unapproachable in the result, certainly, yet incredibly elusive to the unwary in the manner of bruising179, and practically ineradicable upon the more delicate shades of silk garment. In such a situation the one who is now relating the various incidents of the day may be imagined by a broad-minded and affectionate sire: partaking of this native fruit and oil, and from time to time expressing his insatiable anguish180 that he continually fails to become more proficient in controlling the oblique181 movements of the viands182, while the less successful crickets are constrained183 to persevere184 in the combat, and the ever-present note of evasive purport185 is raised by a voice from behind a screen exclaiming, “Out afore? That he may have been, but do he think we was a-going to give he out afore? No, maaster, us doant a-have a circus every day hereabouts.”
Thus may this imagination of competitive locusts be set forth to the end. If a fuller proof of what an unostentatious self-effacement hesitates to enlarge upon were required, it might be found in the barbarian printed leaf, for the next day this person saw a public record of the strife, in which his own name was followed by a numerical emblem117 signifying that he had not stumbled or proved incompetent186 in any one particular. Sir Philip, I beheld187 with pained surprise, had obtusely188 suffered himself to be caught out in the committal of fifty-nine set offences.
With a not unnatural189 anticipation190 that, as a result of this painstaking191 description, this person will find two well-equipped camps of contending locusts in Yuen-ping on his return.
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venerated
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modulation
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maidens
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