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and when my head towers so high that no foot can step over my crest, waving towards the Heavens, then are you to set apart seven days and seven nights, and on the morning which shall follow, at the rising sun, you are to prepare me for a feast. And when the feast is ready, you are to make your invocations, first towards the east, and secondly towards the north, and thirdly towards the west, and fourthly towards the south; - then you are to stand in the centre of the four points and to call to me above; for I shall be there and shall hear you if you call; and when I hear you, I will take fast hold upon your mind and bring it back to what it ought to be. As you increase, take heed that you observe these things; for I shall know if you observe them. But if you forget to think of me; _ and of these things which I enjoin if you should take no heed, but make use of me without remembering my words, I will fling among you The Desolator! _ I will do this, but you will not think whence comes the scourge _ It will be my work, and you will feel me when you cannot know me."

It seems, however, that the Sons, though they committed the murder, disobeyed the instructions, and were presently without food. Their father, returning from the chase, discovered