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he has not had one thing over which he could get excited about.
He scoffed at the food and turned his head from the celebrat ion.
He thought it was silly and fit only for babies. Horototo yearned
for a better land, a place where people did .........,_ nteresting.
Above all, Horototo yearned for happiness, and he knew he couldn’t find it in Bakoa.
Horototo becomes deeply dis interested and leaves the royal party. The court ( island) medicant, Wang Chih, stops him and offers his mystical serv ices. Horototo has but one wish and that is to be happy. A wish for happiness is a hard one for Wang Chih to produce. He asks his aids to dance for him while he meditates. The W\fs>hing
dance is produced, but before it ends Wang Chih tells Horototo of a far away Shangra-La, many miles from Bakoa the Drab. Horototo is granted
may leave Bakoa without Jat-Sun-Lii's blessing for the king ruled the island with a tight hand.
To Jat-Sun-Lii, the whole idea was childish and immature. "A silly dream," he tells his son. But Horototo is persistant, and trhkth
a tast ini
and finding that
glorious dreams, resolves himself to go there immed iatly. But no one
great re I uct<2f>ce,the king grants the permiss ion
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