Part 20 (1/2)

X Suggested Reading

Rudyard Kipling's _The shi+p that Found Herself_

XI Meently scan your brothera kennin' wrang, To step aside is hu why they do it, And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it

Who made the heart 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord--its various tone, Each spring--its various bias

Then at the balance let's be mute; We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted

ROBERT BURNS

CHAPTER XV

THE EXPOSITION OF IDEAS

”But words are things, and a sht, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think”

LORD BYRON

I Introduction

The exposition of ideas is difficult and important It takes many forms, but only three can be noticed in this chapter: (1) Exposition through Narration; (2) Exposition through Condensation; (3) Exposition through Co models illustrate these three forms, respectively

II Model I

PUFFERS

The wise men of antiquity loved to convey instruction under the covering of apologue; and, though this practice is generally thought childish, we shall eneration which has bought eleven editions of a poeomery may well condescend to listen to a fable of Pilpay

A pious Brahmin, it is written, made a vow that on a certain day he would sacrifice a sheep, and on the appointed hborhood three rogues who knew of his vow, and laid a sche by it The first met him and said, ”Oh Brahmin, wilt thou buy a sheep? I have one fit for sacrifice” ”It is for that very purpose,” said the holy man, ”that I caht out of it an unclean beast, an ugly dog, lame and blind Thereon the Brahs is untrue, callest thou that cur a sheep?” ”Truly,” answered the other, ”it is a sheep of the finest fleece and of the sweetest flesh O Brah most acceptable to the Gods” ”Friend,”

said the Brahmin, ”either thou or I must be blind”

Just then one of the accomplices caue, ”that I have been saved the trouble of going to the market for a sheep! This is such a sheep as I wanted For how much wilt thou sell it?” When the Brah in the air at a holy festival ”Sir,” said he to the newcomer, ”take heed what thou dost; this is no sheep, but an unclean cur” ”O Brahmin,”

said the newcomer, ”thou art drunk or mad!”

At this time the third confederate drew near ”Let us ask this man,” said the Brahmin, ”what the creature is, and I will stand by what he shall say” To this the others agreed, and the Braher, what dost thou call this beast?” ”Surely, O Brahmin,” said the knave, ”it is a fine sheep” Then the Brahmin said, ”Surely the Gods have taken away , and bought it for a hee, and offered it up to the Gods, who, being wroth at this unclean sacrifice, smote him with a sore disease in all his joints

Thus, or nearly thus, if we rehtly, runs the story of the Sanscrit aesop The , lies on the surface The writer evidently ainst the practices of puffers, a class of people who have more than once talked the public into the most absurd errors, but who surely never played a more curious or a oreat poet--THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, _Essay on Mr Robert Montgomery's Poems_

III Topics for Discussion