Another prisoner in the yarn, the cook who last year was sentenced to life-long imprisonment for attempting to poison some foreigners, hearing of the success of his fellow prisoner, attempted likewise and began to suffer all the agonies of dying. He also was provided with an outer room, but the foreigner sought his release, For a the official refused to release him unless
eried of ten days he continued dying; mut as neither the foreigner nor death came to effect his release necessity compelled a restoration to health—and prison. Whence it appears that even a Chinese official may live and learn.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.