These are eight great tips on how to use a wishing feather while harvesting mushrooms emerging from the rot of a hidden garden.  First, be wearing a green conical cap so as to funnel your consciousness nearer the cosmos.  Second, kneel with back straight and hands on thighs.  Third, feel the life and growth around you, mirroring the life and growth within.  Fourth, with your whiskers, feel the power of the charged air of this claustral, dank cathedral, rank with the sour odor of rot and roots.  Fifth, take ten deep, slow breaths.  Sixth, touch the wishing feather atop your cap as you say, "Spirit o' mushroom, give me yer presence an' grant me a boon."  Seventh, register the soft, silent presence of the alien spirit of the mushroom.  Eighth, bless each mushroom before removing it from the earth, leaving the poisonous ones for the turtles to relish.  From The Gnole by Alan Aldridge.