of my many foolishnesses, art thou prepared for rash sayings and rash
doings. Not so. It has been said, that those the gods would destroy
they first make mad. And I have been indeed mad. I have crossed thy
will, and scoffed at thy authority, and done divers evil and wanton
things. Wherefore, last night a vision was vouchsafed me, and I have
seen the wickedness of my ways. And thou stoodst forth like a shining
star, with brows aflame, and I knew in mine own heart thy greatness. I
saw all things clearly. I knew that thou didst command the ear of God,
and that when you spoke he listened. And I remembered that whatever of
the good deeds that I had done, I had done through the grace of God, and
the grace of Moosu.

"'Yes, my children,' I cried, turning to the people, 'whatever right I
have done, and whatever good I have done, have been because of the
counsel of Moosu. When I listened to him, affairs prospered; when I
closed my ears, and acted according to my folly, things came to folly. By
his advice it was that I laid my store of meat, and in time of darkness
fed the famishing. By his grace it was that I was made chief. And what
have I done with my chiefship? Let me tell you. I have done nothing. My
head was turned with power, and I deemed myself greater than Moosu, and,
behold I have come to grief. My rule has been unwise, and the gods are
angered. Lo, ye are pinched with famine, and the mothers are
dry-breasted, and the little babies cry through the long nights. Nor do
I, who have hardened my heart against Moosu, know what shall be done, nor
in what manner of way grub shall be had.'

"At this there was nodding and laughing, and the people put their heads
together, and I knew they whispered of the loaves and fishes. I went on
hastily. 'So I was made aware of my foolishness and of Moosu's wisdom;
of my own unfitness and of Moosu's fitness. And because of this, being