"Over yonder is the temple of the ancient King-sage, Wen Wang. In that temple T paid e vow once, which Thad made in order to secure success in a lawsuit. It was a case of forcible abduction of a woman, and dragged out three years before the Courts." (N.B.—He was the guilty Person, and euceseding in the air must ave given him a high idea of the virtues of an ancient worthy, who was willing, for consideration, to help him out of his dirty scrapes.)
'AS we wore passing by a certain village aman called after him ina very cordial manner, rather, fom the usual flinging of such epithets at the native Christians as, "Grandsons of the foreign devils," Traitors to your country," ete. 'The reason of this friendly salutation was, that the four temples of that village had' been supplied with mud gods, painted in the highest style of art, by our now earnest native Christian, "The salutation was for Auld Long his mana pealed to the villagers, for whom he had done the work, to leave oft worshipping the work of his hands. When the day of opening the temple came, they were in mortal fear lest he should be unwilling to retouch up the eyes with his brush, and so the gods should be blind forever; whereupon they came with gifts to secure the artist's favour; and lo! they were foolish enough to belove that, after his brash was applied to those sightless eyes, light was put into them, and the gods could then give blessings to their worshippers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.