tood on the east
steps.

11. When sending a man with enquiries to another land, he bowed twice
to him and saw him out.

When K'ang gave him some drugs, he bowed, accepted them, and said, I
have never taken them; I dare not taste them.

12. On coming back from court after his stables had been burnt, the
Master said, Is anyone hurt? He did not ask about the horses.

13. When the king sent him cooked meat, he put his mat straight, and
tasted it first; when he sent him raw flesh, he had it cooked, and
offered it to the spirits; when he sent him a live beast, he kept it
alive.

When he ate in attendance on the king, the king made the offering, he
tasted things first.

When he was sick and the king came to see him, he lay with his head to
the east, with his court dress over him and his girdle across it.

When he was called by the king's bidding, he walked, without waiting
for his carriage.

14. On going into the Great Temple he asked about everything.

15. When a friend died, who had no home to go to, he said, It is for
me to bury him.

When friends sent him anything, even a carriage and horses, he never
bowed, unless the gift was sacrificial flesh.

16. He did not sleep like a corpse. At home he unbent.

Even if he knew him well, his face changed when he saw a mourner. Even
when he was in undress, if he saw anyone in full dress, or a blind
man, he looked grave.

To men in deep mourning and to the census-bearers he bowed over the
cross-bar.

Before choice meats he rose with changed look. At sharp thunder, or a
fierce wind, his look changed.

17. When mounting his carriage he stood straight and grasped the cord.
When he was in it, he did not look round, or speak fast, or point.

18. Seeing a man's face, she rose, flew round and settled. The Master
said, Hen pheasant on the ridge, it is the season, it is the season.

Tzu-lu went towards her: she sniffed thrice and rose.[88]

[Footnote 88: This passage cannot belong here. It is corrupt and
unintelligible.]

BOOK XI

1. The Master said, Savages! the men that first went into courtesy and
music! Gentlemen! those that went into them later! My use is to follow
the first lead in both.

2. The Master said, Not one of my followers in Ch'en or Ts'ai comes
any more to my door! Yen Yuean, Min Tzu-ch'ien, Jan Po-niu and
Chung-kung were men of noble life; Tsai Wo and Tzu-kung were the
talkers; Jan Yu and Chi-lu were statesmen; Tzu-yu and Tzu-hsia, men of