They raked it through, and, as I still was hid,

Cried out in scorn—“What odds? We’d find he bore

Nothing upon him but the truculent eye

That with its taunting glance so roused our rage;

Some other soon enough will blow that out!”

Then once again, but with chagrin’s slow footsteps,

Peering around and in my face even staring,

They passed me by and I was still unseen.

Kan.

And then you thought——