A while ago in Hanyang, a feast was spread in a fairly well-to-do house on the eve of ason's marriage. The presents hed been delivered, comprising the double dowry of the bride of the morrow. Red candles flashed their ruddy light, mutual toasting and congratulation proceeded in time-honoured style, when in rushed half a dozen loughs, threatening the company with real foreign pistols—and none of your native matchlock blunderbusses. Several guests were wounded, and the presents carried off—a kind of tumultuous excitement" happily not common on such festive occasions.
The runners were put on the track, and at Length found some men secreted atrong the reeds upon the bank of the Han, some way up. They were thieves, but not the thieves. Their booty consisted in sv much iron from the Iron Works, but renewed search resulted in the capture of the unbidden wedding guests. four or five of them, who are now on trial in their respective counties.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.