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Updated: May 3, 2025
Moreover, he found that the story-makers of Peking, receiving higher rewards than those at Kia-Lu, considered themselves bound to introduce living characters into all their tales, and in consequence the very ornamental drawings of birds and flowers which he had entwined into a legend entitled "The Last Fight of the Heaven-sent Tcheng" a story which had been entrusted to him for illustration as a test of his skill was returned to him with a communication in which the writer revealed his real meaning by stating contrary facts.
In spite of this person's great economy, and of his having begged his way from Kia-Lu to Peking in the guise of a pilgrim, journeying to burn incense in the sacred Temple of Truth near that city, when once within the latter place his taels melted away like the smile of a person of low class when he discovers that the mandarin's stern words were not intended as a jest.
A little while ago these misgivings would have found no resting-place in the bosom of the writer. Now, however but the matter must be made clear from the beginning. The name of the despicable person who here sets forth his immature story is Kin Yen, and he is a native of Kia-Lu in the Province of Che-Kiang.
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