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The soldiers were about to kill the little creature, when the captain went out to look into the matter. When he had looked he laughed and said: "You must not harm him! He is the river-king of Dsiningdschou. When I was stationed in Dsiningdschou he sometimes visited me, and then I always gave sacrifices and performances in his honor.
Thereupon the scholar was frightened, he bowed twice, and prayed: "Great King, you have taken this trouble on my account! I honor you from my heart!" No sooner had he spoken these words than, in a moment, the little snake was back in his bowl, and just as small as he had been before. In Dsiningdschou they were celebrating the river god's birthday in his temple.
Dsiningdschou is a district capital on the Imperial Canal, near the Yellow River. In the Sea of Dungting there is a hill, and in that hill there is a hole, and this hole is so deep that it has no bottom. Once a fisherman was passing there who slipped and fell into the hole. He came to a country full of winding ways which led over hill and dale for several miles.
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