On Saturday we published a.note.from correspondent at Soochow. giving,, somo details ok dangerous Tumours being cireulated in.the vicinity against. foreigners, somewhat similar to the usual libellous reports circulated by the intriguing gentry 1 ibeltea a cosmopolitan brown hen." we don't all of us know. -And little things, and literati in. the inland and Yangtze At a sort of "private view I attended this doll quite puzzled me.. Finally I unas well as in. China, trifles; make, up. the. sum of life in London, towns. "From trustworthy native sources at Soochow.we. are now. able to. sup-ravelled the riddle. A few. verses are Asse Waxeaay Latiror, plement our Soochow correspondent's note. written out, over a tiny basket of Still tinier broken eggs. This basket the 26th June.
The story goes: that. on the 19th.instanb several foreigners,. accompanied, by, their "; setious "cosmopolitan brown hen," or doll, "boys," went for an. excursion along ithe carries on, her arm. She looks quite heartbroken, and the verses read canal bank outside: the Ch'angmén gate of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.