Konx Om Pax

THIEN TAO; OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 59 NAHARIAMA A Q 1-1 E A Q R 1 A Q M QA A that he succeeded in his famous attempt to outdo the feats of Captain Webb. Nor was his reception less than a triumph. So athletic a nation as the Japanese still were could not but honour so superb an achievement, though it cost them dear, inasmuch as the Navy League (by an astute series of political moves) compelled the party in power to treble the Navy, build a continuous line of forts around the sea-coast, and expend many billions of yen upon the scientific breeding of a more voracious species of shark than had hitherto infested their shores. So they carried Kwaw shoulder-high to the Yoshiwara, and passed him the glad hand, and called out the Indians, and annexed his per sonal property for relics, and otherwise followed the customs of the best New York Society, while the German Band accompanied the famous Ka Ru So to the following delightful ballad: CHORUS. Blow the tom-tom, hang the flute! Let us all be merry! I'm a party with acute Chronic 1. Monday I'm a skinny critter Quite Felicien-Rops-y. Blow the cymbal, bang the zither! Tuesday I have dropsy. Chorus.