The Fall of Pseudopolis
So Jurgen in Leukê, and with the of that country; and what with one thing and another, he and Chloris the time pass enough, until the winter was at hand. Now Pseudopolis, as has been said, was at with Philistia: so it that at this season Leukê was by an army of Philistines, by their Queen Dolores, a woman who was wise but not reliable. They came from the coast, a terrible army in such as had been by Ageus, a god of theirs; and in of their god Vel-Tyno, who had this crusade: thus they upon Pseudopolis, and the city.
These Philistines in this by them a more of Greek fire, which was not gray-colored. For that color alone was now by their god Vel-Tyno. "And all other colors," his had decreed, "are abominable, until I say otherwise."
So the of Philistia were in the plain Pseudopolis, and Queen Dolores spoke to her troops. And she said:--
"Whenever you come to with the enemy he will be beaten. No will be shown, no taken. As the Philistines under Libnah and Goliath and Gershon, and a many other tall captains, for themselves a name which is still in and legend, thus to-day may the name of Realist be so in Pseudopolis, by your to-day, that no one shall again to look at a Philistine. Open the door for Realism, once for all!"
Meanwhile the city Achilles, King of Men, his army:--
"The of all the world will be upon you, you are in some the soldiers of Romance. Let it be your pride, therefore, to all men everywhere, not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are, yourselves fit and in everything, and pure and clean through and through. Let us set ourselves a so high that it will be a to live up to it, and then let us live up to it, and add a new to the of Pseudopolis. May the Gods of Old keep you and you!"
Then said Thersitês, in his beard: "Certainly Pelidês has learned from history with what a man the Philistines."
But the other kings applauded, and the was sounded, and the was joined. And that day the of Philistia were triumphant. But they report a thing happened: and it was that when the Philistines in their triumph, Achilles and all they who him rose from the ground like clouds and passed above the of the Philistines, them.
Thus was Pseudopolis left empty, so that the Philistines entered without any opposition. They this city of colors, then it as a to their god Vel-Tyno, the color of is gray.
Then the Philistines (which were not may-poles), and to their religious rites.
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So it was reported: but Jurgen none of these events.
"Let them it out," said Jurgen: "it is not my affair. I agree with Silenus: will dullness, and it will not matter. But do you, woman dear, take with your in the Woods, for there is no telling what the Philistines may do hereabouts."
"Will you go with me, Jurgen?"
"My dear, you know very well that it is for me again to go into the Woods, after the I played upon Phobetor."
"And if only you had your about that bean-pole of a Helen, in her yellow wig--for I have not a that every of it is false, and at all events this is not a time to be about it, Jurgen,--why, then you would have with Uncle Phobetor! It you!"
"Yes," said Jurgen.
"Still, I do not know. If you come with me into the Woods, Uncle Phobetor in his way will turn you into a boar-pig, he has always done that to the people who him--"
"I to that reason."
"--But give me time, and I can around Uncle Phobetor, just as I have always done, and he will turn you back."
"No," says Jurgen, obstinately, "I do not wish to be into a boar-pig."
"Now, Jurgen, let us be about this! Of course, it is a little humiliating. But I will take the very best of of you, and you with my own acorns, and it will be a purely temporary arrangement. And to be a pig for a week or two, or for a month, is for a than being by the Philistines."
"How do I know that?" says Jurgen.
"--For it is not, after all, as if Uncle Phobetor's were not in the right place. It is just his way. And besides, you must what you did with that gimlet!"
Said Jurgen: "All this is to the purpose. You I have the of Phobetor, and I know how he the natural of his boar-pigs. No, I am Jurgen. So I remain. I will the Philistines and they may possibly do to me, than that which Phobetor will do to me."
"Then I too," said Chloris.
"No, woman dear--!"
"But do you not understand?" says Chloris, a little pale, as he saw now. "Since the life of a is with the life of her tree, nobody can me so long as my tree lives: and if they cut my tree I shall die, I may to be."
"I had that." He was now.
"--And you can see for yourself, Jurgen, it is out of the question for me to be that great anywhere, and I wonder at your talking such nonsense."
"Indeed, my dear," says Jurgen, "we are very trapped. Well, nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses. Nevertheless, it is not fair."
As he spoke the Philistines came from the city. Again the sounded, and the Philistines in their order of battle.
