The literary digest . anote of it. Then he would ask me-to givethe details, and often to repeat them. IfI told him the story by reading it from abook, he would say: There is no use ofyour reading it from the book. I preferyour own words and phrases—all fromyour own thought. Otherwise, it wontdo. Therefore I had to assimilate thestory before telling it. That made medream. He would become so eager whenI reached an interesting point of a story!His facial expression would change and hiseyes would burn intensMy. This changewas extraordinary. For exa^mple, take thestory O Katsu San of Yurei-dake, in
The literary digest . anote of it. Then he would ask me-to givethe details, and often to repeat them. IfI told him the story by reading it from abook, he would say: There is no use ofyour reading it from the book. I preferyour own words and phrases—all fromyour own thought. Otherwise, it wontdo. Therefore I had to assimilate thestory before telling it. That made medream. He would become so eager whenI reached an interesting point of a story!His facial expression would change and hiseyes would burn intensMy. This changewas extraordinary. For exa^mple, take thestory O Katsu San of Yurei-dake, in thefirst part of the l)ook Kottb. As I wasnarrating that story, his face became ex-tremely pale and his eyes fixt. That wasnot unusual, hut this once I feltafraid. He sighed one long breath, andsaid, Very interesting! when I finished it. He asked me to say, Alas, blood! andrepeat it several times. H«> inquired how itliad probably been said, and in what lone Tlie Literary Digest for January 11, 1919 51. {f The si0n the World knows It is the Gargoyle — the world symbol ofscientific lubrication. The red Gargoyle appears on cans and barrelswhich leave Vacuum Oil Company refineries scat-tered over the globe. The red Gargoyle points the way to correctlubrication on six continents. It hangs out overgarage doors in every country where motor carsare a factor. In the ports of the world it islooked for by owners of steamships. It is a servant to electricity, steam and gas. Itgives these power-sources their right to work atfull efficiency. Every nation on the two hemispheres recog-nizes the red Gargoyle. It is their guide-post tomechanical I—I ? lubricants
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