But we met an unexpected cliff culty. Tickets had to be purchased "Jat the ticket office and we did not know the name of the place to which we were bound, Tt was possible to ask a ticket for "any-Where. We explained our dificulty and found lots of sympathy but no one could help us unless would, tell them where we want Jed to go. At Inst we found a map fof the harbour, pointed to a mame fon an indent of the bay and at once there was a sigh of relief from four willing helpers. One man joy fully led the way to a ticket office and authoritatively commanded the man in charge to give us tickets for Machimoto, then led us to th launch, and left us smiling a though we had befriended him and not he us. Price of tickets 10 son. After half an hour of pleasant ling over the blue water the Tauneh stopped puffing and the caps in indicated that. this was our destination, We got into a sampan jand headed for a tiny village nest ling against a hill with wavelets. breaking on the beach. ill Priscilla' "why ala here here?" replied, "this is where we took tickets for."
"That is no reason at all," said Priscilla "we might have kept on the launch until it reached its destimation and paid the difference in T acknowledged that, with usual density of comprehension, I not thought of this, but pointed out meekly. that this was a beauti fol spot and we might have a di Pighttul walk along, the shove te the next village, which we could about a mite further on, This ay satisfactory, we reached said.village, asked for the and found @ sampan man waiting for passengers. We inquired when word "foreign" attached to any elo in China is one of its best selling points. In fact the very class that jeers at them with this hated word is trying its best every moment of the day to become more and more foreign.
The deal life of to-day's leading citizens is exemplified in the man who rises in the morning from a "foreign bed: performs his ablutions water from a. foreign thp: scrubs his teeth with a foreign "teeth-brush anointed with foreign tooth-paste. He puts on foreign un-scler-clothing and foreign socks, dons fa foreign suit, with foreign shoes on his fect and his head crowned with a foreign hat. He rides to his "place of business in a foreign car, senters a foreign building and does a day's transaction in foreign He Lunches at a foreign res-Ytaurant and when he smiles in his satisfretion he displays several foreign teeth with which he mastic. sites' his foreign'food.
"Me leaves his place of business in Yhe'afternoon and engages in foreign "epoits, After which he goes to a emigrate to the nearest country.
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