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little bottles with different kinds of powders in them, 
one for every kind of servant that he wants. In his 
little private workshop they all stand in rows upon a 
shelf and every one has a different label on it, so that 
he knows which to take up in a minute. One is 
labelled “Glory,” and has a powder in it of all sorts 
of different colours, scarlet, blue, green, white, and a 
little of it dirty yellow. The man on whom a grain 
of this powder falls will always be wanting to kill 
people, and the more he kills the better man he will 
think himself, and so, too, will other people think 
him. You may imagine what a lot of work the 
demon can get out of a servant like that. Another 
one is labelled ‘‘ Justice,’ 
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and whoever the powder 
in that falls on will go through life always saying what 
he doesn’t believe, and trying to make other people 
believe it. Others are labelled ‘‘ Patriotism,” ‘‘ Duty,” 
“Culture,” “Refinement,” “Taste,” ‘Sensibility,’ and 
so on (all which words your mother will explain to 
you). The demon chooses them according to the 
kind of thing he wants done, and all on whom any 
of the powders inside the bottles fall become his 
servants in different ways—very grand ways, too, 
they are often thought—and go on serving him and 
thinking well of themselves, and being held always 
in great honour and respect, all their lives. 
Now you must not, of course, think that these 
