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2%e beginning of a wondrous Tale. 



One day while I was sitting doing nothing, it came into my head to 

 write a story in which the Hindoowy dialect should he preserved in its 

 purity free from any admixture. Having taken this resolution, my heart 

 expanded like a rose bud. Of course, no foreign words or barbarous 

 expressions were to' appear in it. Of those who heard my intention, one, 

 a great wiseacre, an old curmudgeon, quarrelsome withal, and possessed 

 of stentorian lungs, was determined to oppose the plan and introduced 

 his nonsense by making faces, shaking his head, turning up his nose, 

 lifting his eyebrows and turning away his eyes. He said, " It does 

 not appear how this can be ; that the Hindoowy quality of the style 

 should not appear and the Bhakha not slip in : that the style common 

 amongst the first sort of people, the super-excellent, should remain as 

 it always was, and that neither of these should be reflected in it. 

 This is impossible." 



The difficulties he made were an offence to me, and I became angry, 

 and said : " What I said was not so wonderful as to make a grain of 



