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ZTbe fiDaequeraber 



Things are not all what they 

 Skimmed milk masquerades as cream 



On the strength of the nattiral and original colour of the 

 mallows, the family name of Malve was adopted to designate 

 the purple which originally was their only dress. This 

 however is only the Occidental story of the hollyhock's 

 colour. In the Orient this chameleon presses other interests, 

 and filling a commercial end by producing a very valuable '' 

 v blue dye, has gone down into Eastern history and song in 

 connection with the royal blue of Heaven instead of the royal 

 purple of Earth. Before the days of aniline dyes, a large 

 part of the blue which we so cheerfully accepted as "indigo" 

 was, it is said, the product of this very colourful plant, and 

 in this connection, and as illustrating one of the many uses 

 to which fable has put this blue dye of India, I cannot forbear 

 to repeat from the Sanskrit a fable older than Christianity,' 

 older than ^sop, older perhaps than Rome herself, contained 

 in an antique Indian fable-collection, and known as 



THE DYED JACKAL 



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And the goose said to the King:"' '^ ^ f* 

 " Your Royal memory doubtless retains the story of 

 The Jackal's fate, who being coloured blue, 

 Leaving his party, left his own life too." 



"No. How was that ? " said the King, and the goose related 



THE STORY OF THE DYED JACKAL , i | J' 



A jackal once upon a time, as he was prowling about the 

 suburbs of the town, slipped into a blue-vat ; and, not being 



