are going on in Hsuchoufu. The number of contestants for honours is estimated at 30,000. Many of these men were very much distressed at the continual rain just before the examinations, Perhaps the half of this number would have to make the trip on wheelbarrows. Many would have to go 100 miles. Wheelbarrows would not gain the mud and the date could not be changed for their benefit. The ten days' rain stopped just in time to get them all there, Hsiich'ien, 14th May.
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