:-:; IN THE VISION OF GOD

iiis body and had a few f nil doses of charas smoke. He had
still eleven ropees left. The coins jingled in his hands and
he was laughing most benignantly.

"Swamiji, let ns take a round in the bazaar," he

A party started consisting of Balak Ram, Ramdas and
three IT £<*cr "Others- He strutted in the streets as if he were
"the in< .uarch <ȣ all he surveyed/' His outstretched arms
moved t<» and fro, his shoulders rose and fell at every stride,
his Ifgg wide apart tramped Tvith a measured and proud
pace; his head, seemingly poised on a loose pivot, movedlike
a pendulum from one side to the other. His vhole bearing
showed that he wanted to impress upon the ignorant world
that a great personage had been gracious enough to bless
the streets of Ban* la with his holy tread! In the thickly
eil bazaar people made way at his approach. Many
and prostrated before him. 01 Earn, what Tro&derfn!
mask? you pui on!
Balak Ram descrying an umbrella shop got in and
4*aine out with a fashionable umbrella worth three
rupees. Next, entering a shop of foot-wear, he purchased
a pair of shining shoes and a pair of socks, striped yellow
and red.
Now he nourished the umbrella in his right hand, and
as the shoes were of a size too small for his feet he hobbled
aloog, adding to the majesty of Ms gait. Merchants in their
«h<ipB forgetting for a time to attend to their customers,
gazed *m Balak Ram in wonder, not unmixed with awe*
At last the party arrived at the point from which they
vterted, that is Moolchand's house.
4*CftWes be on the bootmaker," he shouted.
Sitting OB a tench he agked one of the devotees to pull
«*t hl» fltoesit OBC*. One of the party removed the shoes
fro** t>ff Ms feet, a* also the socks. When Balak Bam
**ift*<i fcfr hfeli what did he 8ee?-two blisters a* big as