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_O THE ANALECTS : INTRODUCTION.
would learning be to me? " sceptieally asked Tzfi Lu.
" On the southern hill is a bamboo, straight by nature and
that needs no bending. If you cut it down and use it, it
will pierce the hide of a rhinoceros,--what need is there of
learning ? .... Yes," said the Master, "but if you notch
und feather it, barb and sharpen it, will it not penetrate
much'deeper ? " Tzu L_ bowed twice paying reverence
and submitting himself to the Master's teaching. Confucius
was wont to say, "From the time that I obtained Yu, ill
words no longer reached my ears" As foretold by the
Sage he did not die a natural death. When K'uai Wai _j_
1t]_, father of Duke Ch'u _, asselted himself against his
son to obtain his ducal rights, Tzfi Lu was in the service of
Chu's ininister K'ung K'uei RE t_, K'uai Wai succeeded
in entering the city during Tz_ Lu's absence. Ch'u
escaped, but K'ung !fuel wxs still within the city, where
_K'uai Wai, under pretext of gaining him over, was seeking
his death. Tzfi Lu hastening back to the city met Tzfi
Kao :-_ ,_,, who informed him of Chu's escape, and
urged him to follow suit along with himself. Learning
that his Master was still in danger he remarked, _ _ _,
:_ _ _ _!_ _, " He who eats a man's food may not
go back on him in his hour of peril," and forthwith
advanced to his Master's defence. Successful in obtaining
an entrance to the city he sought to save him, but was
attacked and mortally wounded. His cap string having
been severed by the blow, he calmly re-ned it saying, "A
man of honour does not doffhis helmet to die." _ --_ _l_
_J _t_ _ _ II. I7;V. 6,7, I3,25;VI. 6,26;VII. Io,
18, 34_ IX. JI, 26; X. I7; XI. 2, Iz, z2, I4, t7, 2i, 23,