write or read business and private letters for the illiterate masses.

[43] Say about L10.

[44] Alchemy is first mentioned in Chinese history B.C. 133, and was
widely cultivated in China during the Han dynasty by priests of the
Taoist religion.

[45] Kuan Chung and Pao Shu are the Chinese types of friendship. They
were two statesmen of considerable ability who flourished in the
seventh century B.C.

[46] These are used, together with a heavy wooden _baton_, by the
Chinese washerman, the effect being most disastrous to a European
wardrobe.

[47] To provide coffins for poor people has ever been regarded as
an act of transcendent merit. The tornado at Canton in April 1878,
in which several thousand lives were lost, afforded an admirable
opportunity for the exercise of this form of charity--an opportunity
which was largely taken advantage of by the benevolent.

[48] For usurping its prerogative by allowing Chia to obtain wealth.

[49] See Chapter I.

[50] Compare the legend of the tailed Miao Tzu tribes named Yao,
'mountain-dogs' or 'jackals,' living on the mountain ranges in the
north-west of Kuangtung Province, related in the _Jih chi so chih_.

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