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In fact, M. de Haan told me that among certain of the Dyak tribes virtually all of the men suffer from rupture as a result of the constant use of the blow-gun. Though I have heard those who have never seen the sumpitan in use sneer at it as a toy, it is, at short distances, one of the most accurate weapons in existence and, when its darts are poisoned, one of the deadliest.
"I thought the orthodox party would be pleased to hear of the death of a Meshumad," he said suavely, screwing his eyeglass more tightly into its orbit, "on the same principle that anti-Semites take in the Jewish papers to hear of the death of Jews." For a moment De Haan was staggered.
"You know no more than the Reverend Joseph Strelitski vith his vite tie and his princely income." De Haan seized the poet by the collar, swung him off his feet and tucked him up in the coal-scuttle. "Yah!" croaked Ebenezer. "Here's a fine editor. Ho! Ho! Ho!" "We cannot have either of them. It's the only way to keep them quiet," said the furniture-dealer who was always failing.
Monsieur de Haan, as well as the other Dutch officials whom I questioned on the subject, attributed the prevalence of head-hunting in Borneo to the vanity of the Dyak women. He explained that, just as American girls expect candy and flowers from the young men who are attentive to them, so Dyak maidens expect freshly severed human heads.
I should say it must be a penny." "It will be a penny," said De Haan oracularly. "We have thought it all over," interposed Gradkoski. "The first number will be bought up out of curiosity, whether at a penny or at twopence. The second will go almost as well, for people will be anxious to see how it compares with the first.
They were eight in number, three of whom, including Gillis van Ledenberg, lodged at the house of Daniel Tressel, first clerk of the States-General. The leaders of the Barneveld party, aware of the purport of this mission and determined to frustrate it, contrived a meeting between the Utrecht commissioners and Grotius, Hoogerbeets, de Haan, and de Lange at Tressel's house. Grotius was spokesman.
Then I vill not only print your paper, I vill get you large profits from extra printing. Vith a man of great business talent at the head of it " De Haan made a threatening movement, and Pinchas edged away from the proximity of the coal-scuttle. "Gluck's our printer!" said De Haan peremptorily. "He has Hebrew type. We shall want a lot of that.
In that number we shall announce that owing to the enormous success we have been able to reduce it to a penny; meantime we make all the extra pennies." "I see," said Raphael dubiously. "We must have Chochma" said De Haan. "Our sages recommend that." Raphael still had his doubts, but he had also a painful sense of his lack of the "practical wisdom" recommended by the sages cited.
De Haan, who was busy directing the clerks to write out ten thousand wrappers for the first number, and who had never heard of Raphael before, held a whispered confabulation with Gradkoski and Schlesinger and in a few moments Raphael was rescued from obscurity and appointed to the editorship of the Flag of Judah at a salary of nothing a year.
Ti, tum, tee ti." He went on humming a sprightly air, then, suddenly interrupting himself, he said, "but have you got an advertisement canvasser, Mr. De Haan?" "No, not yet," said De Haan, turning around. The committee had resolved itself into animated groups, dotted about the office, each group marked by a smoke-drift. The clerks were still writing the ten thousand wrappers, swearing inaudibly.
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