THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
WILLIE
A female child reproaches Harry
Chapter 11
When Harry had said this, a female bchild among the multitudes stood up and reproached him, saying, “Surely, yours is the wrong view, because if everyone stayed away from the tree it would wither and die, and the cOthers, that is, all the oppressed peoples of the world, would have a chance to live in their own way, which is dall they have ever wanted,
2“And everything would be better,
3“And more eequal,
4“And there would be peace, because fno one would have any more than anyone else, and there would never be any reason to commit genocide or any gother evil.”
5Thereupon Harry laughed,
6And laughed,
7And laughed,
8Until the multitudes thought that Harry would perish of laughing,
9On the spot,
10hBut he did not,
11And when he had wiped the tears from his face, he spoke again, saying, How can any child be so stupid?
12Truly, you do not understand the way of things,
13At all.
14Now sit down, you foolish daughter of a dog, before my Angels have to make you sit down,
15And I will iexplain the way of things to you, so that even you can understand them.
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