I remember once hearing a good story-teller give an account of how the chief idol in a temple in Wuchangiu took to eating opium, and how the supplies of opium brought were gather. ed carefully after the temple was closed tion. I have only recently soon by the priests for personal consump-illustration of the story. two of the temples h i there wore some half-dozen who have the reputation of opium. Each of them was well daubed "over with the drug. How much of it gets into the priest's pipe it in not easy to say. Those in residence at the temple evidently thought it a reasonable thing for devotees to supply.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.