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Updated: May 29, 2025
Sometimes for a few moments the sound sank imperceptibly lower and lower and seemed making ready to stop. Then reinforced by fresh thousands of throats, doubtless wetted by copious drafts of samshu, it grew again suddenly, rising stronger and stronger, hoarser and hoarser, more insane and more possessed, until the tympanums of our ears were so tortured that they seemed fit to burst.
They were stationed right where they deployed from the junks. Men were put in guard over them. At Tien Tsin they had behaved rather badly, I was told by one of them, had gone on a Samshu jag ... a Chinese drink, worse than the worst American "rot-gut." ... "Wisht I c'd git off the dock an' rustle up another drink somewheres."
Gently rousing her and speaking soothing words he held out his humble offering of two little bowls containing rice and samshu, some sticks of incense and a few tiny candles. These the poor woman took, but without a sign, for her gratitude was too deep to show, and reverently placed the bowls, the lighted candles and smouldering incense-sticks in position round the grave.
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