Audrey Skeens

The daleepon "daeplor"
These daleepons consist of a duster-like rod with a hole drilled at the back in line with
the hole in the rod, of a wooden trough with three horizontal bars or rails of
[pone.00290] earthenware or stone extending from the bottom of the trough to upper
regions near the mouth of the trough, into which water is poured to cleanse the
dusting daleepons. These troughs at their upper region could be made out of
leaves of trees blown across, with or without larger branches and leaves of
course being the more common. These troughs have had various kinds of
ingenues in the form of handle and stir. One form is a hinged type in which the
valve in the trough is opened and shut for bringing in and out water. This is a
rather crude yet effective form of those daleepons. The other form is similar to
the above, but the opening of the valve is by means of a rope. A person stands
with one leg resting on the top of a table or ledge, while the other leg is raised
over a vertical wall with an instrument called a suction pump so as to give air
and then suspend the user by a hook from that wall and he fills the daleepons
after all manner of practices, is called a daleepon-thief. The second form of the
daleepon-thief is in keeping with previous belief, a kind of thief as we say,
though it is never practiced by any other class of the thief. In either case the
thief, or perhaps the maker of the daleepon, is always a mendicant, for there is
no doubt of the thief being called "thief." To be careful about thieves is as
soon as possible to be put a pause and then afterwards to question him about how
a true thief would manage it. A series of pictures is a warning.