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Yunnanfa has enjoyed a local fame because it was the only city in the province with a giant. This distinction is, however, now lost, as the giant is dead. He was 7ft. in. in height, and was proportionately ighing over 27 stone. A enolic ally, of tate yenrs he had been a woldier in the Trensueer's Yamen, His custom, when a coolie, was to carry double loads, and so draw double pay, snd since he hid been in the Yamen he had also received the rations and pay of two men. He is to have had a sister much taller than himself, but his brother and his brother's children are of culinary height. Epilepsy was the cause of his de: Had he lived until the proposed ways to this city are constructed, he mig have enjoyed a world-wide as' well as a provincial fume. The popular expl of his great size is, thet he and his sister found some mushrooms gérsiag upon their mother's grave, wel ato them. The two went as usual to bed, hut were awakened in the night by finding thet they had grown too big for it.
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