The Archive · 1901

Sly Robbers Meet with a Just Reward

In the present dynasty, at Yungehing, there lived a man named Chan who kept a ten-house, One day a visitor came in and asked to be supplied with a cup of tex. This drank, paid for, and immediately went on his way. Inhis hurry he forgot his bundle, in which among other things were about £150 in silver. When the guest had gone the shop assistant seeing the bundle there quietly put it on one side, feu the owner should return and claim reported the thing to the owner of the shop and said "Let us divide the money." Presently the man returned to seek his bundle and could not find it, Alas," said, this money belongs tu a friend From whom [borrowed it, Deannut now repay my debt." The assistant replied, "You leit nothing here, and indeed if you did, as you gave me no tip tu look your private affairs, how could you expect me to attend to your bundle?" The mind of

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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