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It was bound inward toward Port o' Porno, and might well have been one of Ku Sui's. But the Scorpion, slowing down for her rendezvous, had attracted no attention and had passed undisturbed. Now she hung motionless that is, motionless with respect to the sun.

sacrifice, in the ancestral temple, to the personators of the dead, described on p. 301. Ku Hsi denies this, and holds simply that it belongs to the feast after a sacrifice, without further specifying what sacrifice. The old view is probably the more correct. This was sung, according to the Preface, at the conclusion of the dance in honour of king Wu; see on the last piece of the second decade.

There is no specific mention of the old. capital of Kau in the piece, but the schools of Mao and Ku are agreed in this interpretation, which is much more likely than any of the others that have been proposed. There was the millet with its drooping heads; There was the sacrificial millet coming into blade . Slowly I moved about, In my heart all-agitated. Those who knew me said I was sad at heart.

He saw embroidered in yellow on the black a familiar insignia composed of an asteroid in the circle of ten planets. And then alarm lit his brain and he grimaced. There was a strange odor in his nostrils and it came from the square of silk. "Characteristic, Dr. Ku," he said. "Quite characteristic." The Eurasian smiled. An expression of stupid amazement came over Friday's face.

"Before freedom old man Adam Stanhouse would give my pa a pass or his pocket knife to show to go to see my ma. She lived at Dr. Harrison's farm five miles apart. They all knowed Adam Stanhouse's knife. I don't know how they would know it. He never let his Negroes be whooped unless he said so. Owners didn't 'low the Ku Klux whoop hands on their place.

Early Cosmogony Dualistic The period before the appearance of the P'an Ku myth may be divided into two parts; that from some early unknown date up to about the middle of the Confucian epoch, say 500 B.C., and that from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. We know that during the latter period the minds of Chinese scholars were frequently occupied with speculations as to the origin of the universe.

Trained to shipboard routine and the sudden emergencies of space, they needed but little time to return to full wakefulness. In staccato sentences the new situation was outlined to them. "The asteroid's gone. That means danger to everything here. We will have to evacuate. Ban, wake all the men, including Ku Sui and his assistants, then come to me for further orders.

The children came too, and Nelly watched the sun set. It was the first time in her life that she had ever seen it go right down behind the earth and leave nothing but the fields in front of them, all quite flat. She asked Ku Nai-nai if they would be up in time to see it rise again in the morning.

She seen them and she could name men acted as Ku Kluxes but they never bothered her and she wasn't afraid of them. "I cooked all my life till I got disabled. I never had a child. I wish I had a girl. I've been considered a fine cook all of my life." Name and address of informant Sarah Sexton, Route 4, Box 685, Pine Bluff Date and time of interview November 3, 1958, 10:00 a.m.

De Yankees tried to git some of de men to vote, too, but not many did 'cause dey was scared of de Ku Kluxers. Dey would come at night all dressed up lak ghosts an' scare us all. We didn' lak de Yankees anyway. 'Old Mister Yankee, think he is so grand, Wid his blue coat tail a draggin' on de ground! "I stayed on wid Old Marster afte' de surrender, wid de res', 'til I met Joshua.