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This cheerful piece of information, the sociable young man imparts with a characteristic Chinese chuckle of amusement; the thought of a Fankwae squirming and sizzling in the oil-fed flames touches the chord of his risibilities, and makes him giggle merrily.
How then are the long dark hours to be passed? In all the village not a lamp or candle is to be found; the only light and that too used but sparingly and of necessity being the dim smoky flame of an oil-fed wick.
Already was the day nearly spent, and yet the fire-fiend was raging with fury hardly abated. The trees had long since fallen before the fiery blast; the derricks and buildings of the adjacent wells were consumed, while inch by inch the oil-fed fire crept nearer the town.
Several of the most important avenues, beside the Plaza Mayor and the alameda, are lighted by electricity, other portions of the city proper by gas, and the outlying districts by oil-fed lanterns.
Besides, if this Coogan has got faith enough to crawl that mile, who knows what might happen make him crawl." Mr. Higgins, with a grim nod, headed a determined exodus from the hotel office and Madison strolled out onto the veranda. Needley was in a furor. The news spread like an oil-fed conflagration.
Thus was that host lighted up by the Kuru warriors. Set in their places within a short time, those lamps speedily lighted up thy army. Indeed, all the troops, thus made radiant by the foot-soldiers with oil-fed lamps in their hands, looked beautiful like clouds in the nocturnal sky illumined by flashes of lightning.
The atmosphere that surrounds His throne acts like oxygen on the oil-fed flame, and like carbonic acid gas on the other. The answer of the wise is not selfishness. It is not from our fellows, however bright their lamps, that we can ever get that inward grace. None of them has more than suffices for his own needs, nor can any give it to another.
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