Note: • Published September 1927 in The London Mercury, vol 16 (May to Oct), pp. 465-84. --OCLC 221488224 and "The September Magazines", The Saturday Review 1927-09-10, p. 344 • Published in The Best British Short Stories of 1928, ed. Edward J. O'Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928), pp. 24-54. --OCLC 221495046 primarily

Synopsis: This is the first story Kai Lung tells within the 1928 novel Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, as "Wan and the Remarkable Shrub". "A sage, finding sleep to be an unwelcome obstruction to his pursuit of enlightenment, cuts off his eyelids and throws them away. At the spot where his eyelids land grows a shrub whose leaves look like his eyelids. Later, during a famine, the shrub is rediscovered and used to make a potion ..." --Wikipedia