'The argument is thi nation work from early morn in a or factory, in anything but a dress coat, and with' grimy hands and face, and he will not look so amiable as perhaps.a night desire. But let that man, or four hundred mon" wash and tidy themselves after work hours, have their rice, and sit at the door while the youngsters are playing around, and they will Imedly look the same individuals.
'As a fact, wore a considerable number those four' hundred to heat one of their offspring saying, not shouting, the Foreigner" when any man of the passed along, they would instantly say "Foreign Gentleman, you little rise al And on hen the youngsters did shout, Mr. So and So, what's the time he usual child-question of these parts—their mother, having prepared rice for her son in the Arsenal, said: "They do make a clamour, but it is only their love Such utterance as that of course ies familinvity with aw particular f there is desire to know ti name of be ge rather than by the no "Roreigner Tf the demon " should be heard here, it is be from a juvenile, and one who has come here from other parts. No symptoms of anti-foreign fi could be detected this side of the river during the whole of the autumn of 1900. And whenever soli residence here during those months began to be trying, a walk "ut among the cottages of those four hundred and other nati and the genialities received would be sufficient to restore conside: amount of home-feeling.
From Nanyang to Hanchuan, a distance of sixty miles by water, the villagers have been act tomed to the signs of foreigners for over thirty years. And were all the genialities confidently expected on a journey up river, now about to be taken, to be recorded in the ©'y.-0. Daily News." a couple of columns would have to be filled. For if foreigners are as a rule well treated by the natives, it is in this and a neighbouring county or two. Hence we venture to think that the gleams of hatred" reported from Hanyang, may possibly have been observed
of th" on the principle of "beauty, inthe eye beholder," not hatred of the Chinese, perhaps in this case, but. the reading-in of feel which may have been only too vividly impressed upon the mind in some other parts.
"The Luggage is Rea Sir."
"So am T. But wanted to finish this first." And now we brace ourselves up "to run the gauntlet of all the " gleams of hatred" that may be met with in a day's march! Pulte and temperature normal however
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.