The brick. iyuanfu have been ordered to remove all their kilns distance of 10 li from the vity. Fungelad is responsible for this decree. It ix related that " young gentleman had made several attempts for " degree but without success, and while musing over his non 38, he it the graves of his ancestors to tind out if possible why the. departed ts were unpropitious. Onarriving at the fannily burial ground the whole thing became His soul was stirred with deep indignation on_ perceiving that the amoke of a neighbouring brick-kiln came, wreathing over the ancestral cemetery in utter difference to the reprise of the departed. Tmmediate action must be taken. The young man stated his case to the magistrate. He felt that the kiln. must be removed. The paternal magistrate felt the force of the plea, and deeming it, not worth while to order the removal of one kilo only, he commanded that all the brick-kilns be removed to a distance of 10 li-from the city. Thus the "dead-hand" powerfully affects even the rulers of China.
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