themselves principally into three,—good, bad, and " indifferent, produced from mysterious recess after the determined by performing a Liszt Rhapsody on an abacus, and checked by placing the gears in reverse and playing the thing backward: Not so the humble silver dollar. With astonishing irreverence for th departed, the image of Yuan Shih kaj is slammed three or four times on the counter. Here, we fancy, is the clue to the magic "ring" whereby your Chinese seems to know if the coin is genuine or spurious. His ear is trained to detect the real Yuan's protest at the assault, conveyance came along and was inclined to stop. We boarded it to find th in evidence, this time as affecting the lowly copper. As much ritual was entailed as if we had proffered the wealth of Ormus and of Ind to the She Yeu Bank.
Later, we narrated our experience and. communicated our views to George. His only comment was, "Oh, rats!'
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