An Astrologer's Day
Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread
out his professional equipment, which consisted of a
dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure
mystic charts on it, a notebook, and a bundle of palmyra
writing. His forehead was resplendent with sacred ash and
vermilion, and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal
gleam which was really an outcome of a continual
searching look for customers, but which his simple clients
took to be a prophetic light and felt comforted. The power
of his eyes was considerably enhanced by their position
placed as they were between the painted forehead and the
dark whiskers which streamed down his cheeks: even a
half-wit's eyes would sparkle in such a setting. To crown
the effect he wound a saffron-coloured turban around
his head. This colour scheme never failed. People were
attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia
stalks. He sat under the boughs of a spreading tamarind
tree which flanked a path running through the Town Hall
Park. It was a remarkable place in many ways. A surging
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The astrologer used to have the preparation of his business in quite a professional way
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