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Lap-dogs and cage-birds were kept as pets; 'wonks, the huang kou, or 'yellow dog, were guards of houses and street scavengers. Aquaria with goldfish were often to be seen in the houses of the upper and middle classes, the gardens and courtyards of which usually contained rockeries and artistic shrubs and flowers.
I had sent this ahead only to learn that the mission was closed, as the people were touring in the district; and so there was nothing to do but go to the inn as usual. In the narrow streets of the town there was of course the everlasting pushing, staring crowd, but I saw no signs of unfriendliness, and Jack's gay yaps in response to pointing fingers and cries of "K'an yang kou! k'an yang kou!"
1 Provinces Fengtien. |Locality |District |Mineral | | | |1. Niu Hsin T'ai |Pen-hsi |Coal |2. Tien Shih Fu Kou |Pen-hsi |Coal |3. Sha Sung Kang |Hai-lung |Coal |4. T'ieh Ch'ang |Tung-hua |Coal |5. Nuan Ti T'ang |Chin |Coal |6. An Shan Chan region |From Liaoyang to Pen-hsi |Iron Sha Sung Kang |Ho-lung |C. & I. |2. Chia P'i Kou |Hua-tien |Gold "I avail, etc.,
Quick as lightning, the celestial dog, T'ien Kou, who was in Êrh-lang's service, threw himself on him, bit him in the calf, and caused him to stumble afresh. This was the end of the fight. Sun, surrounded on all sides, was seized and chained. The battle was won. Sun escapes from Lao Chün's Furnace The celestial armies now raised the siege, and returned to their quarters.
At present, their excellencies the ministers and the nobles do not hesitate to sign their names under the formula kou kauwa, your servant; but it is none the less true, for all that, that formerly there were among the common people a class, few in number, of slaves, or serfs, greatly despised by the Hawaiians, and still to our days so lowered in public opinion that a simple peasant refuses to associate with the descendants of this caste.
It was a far less attractive meal than that which the serene steward served below. The calabashes, which contained the pale pink poi, were of highly polished kou wood, but there were no foreign refinements. The other dishes were several kinds of raw fish, dried devil-fish, boiled kalo, sweet potatoes, bananas, and cocoa-nut milk.
Her husband had, however, in years gone by in his attempt to purchase some land, obtained considerably the support of Kou Erh, so that when she, on this occasion, saw goody Liu in such a dilemma, she could not make up her mind to refuse her wish. Being in the second place keen upon making a display of her own respectability, she therefore said smilingly: "Old goody Liu, pray compose your mind!
"All you old lady know," rejoined Kou Erh, after he had heard what she had to say, "is to sit on the couch and talk trash! Is it likely you would have me go and play the robber?" "Who tells you to become a robber?" asked goody Liu. "But it would be well, after all, that we should put our heads together and devise some means; for otherwise, is the money, pray, able of itself to run into our house?"
Northwards from Wa Ssu Kou the Ta Tu changes its name to Chin Ch'uan, or "Golden Stream," and the whole region is known as the Chin Ch'uan country, and is famous in Chinese history as the scene of one of the most hardly fought campaigns against the tribes. On my return to Wa Ssu Kou a week later a free half-day gave me a chance for a little run over the border.
Provinces Fengtien: |Locality |District |Mineral | | | |Niu Hsin T'ai |Pen-hsi |Coal |Tien Shih Fu Kou |Pen-hsi |Coal |Sha Sung Kang |Hai-lung |Coal |T'ieh Ch'ang |Tung-hua |Coal |Nuan Ti T'ang |Chin |Coal |An Shan Chan region |From Liaoyang to Pen-hsi |Iron I avail, etc., His Excellency, Hioki Eki, Japanese Minister. Reply Peking, the 25th day of the 5th month of the 4th year of Taisho.
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