Capitolo 75
speak a lot to it of. But he is not Korong. He is greater than that, and
less. He is Tula, the same as You-Kila-Kila."
"Is it powerful as You-Kila-Kila?" Felix asked, with intense interest.
"Oh, no, him almost it is not so powerful as that", the shade responded, mean
terrorized to the naked suggestion. "Any god in sky or earth is as
You-Kila-Kila. This is only king of the birds that is a little
province, while You-Kila-Kila it is king of sky and earth of plants,
and animals, of of the and men, of all the created things. To his/her sign the sky
it shakes and the tremor of stones. But anchor, this god is Tula, as
You-Kila-Kila. He is not for one year. He follows forever, you cultivate some other
supplant him/it."
"You say him it comes from the sun", Felix put in, devoured with curiosity.
"And does he speak the language of bird? What does it intend from that? He speaks
how the Regina of the Clouds and me when we speak together?"
"Oh, dear, no", the shade responded, in a very confident tone. "Him
you don't speak the least bit to the world as that. He speaks more acute
and taller, and even more bird-as. It is noise, chatters, noise,
as the parrots in a tree; tirra, tirra, tirra; tarra, tarra, tarra; her,
her, her; here, here, here; lu, lu, lu; them her. And he sings to him all the
time. He sings this way--"
And then the shade, with that marvelous power of the accurate mimicry that
it is so strong in all the natural human beings, it started to immediately to ring out,
with a Parisian very good accent, some lines from a notorious song in
"The Fille de Mrs. Angot:"
"Quand on conspi-king,
Frayeur of sans of Quand
On of-king of if of pent
Conspirateur,
You pour tout the mon-de
Avoir of faut of The
Perruque blon-de
Noir of collet of Et--
Perruque blon-de
Noir of collet of Et."
"That is as the King of the Birds it sings", it said the shade as him
ended, throwing again his/her head, and laughing with his was able to his
own imitation. "So amusing, it is not? It is precisely as the song of the
parrot color * pink-provided of crest."