But to return to our Brigadier, two or three facts remain to be related, to supplement the record of his achievements in Tsangchow before leaving for fresh fields and pastures new.
Prior to his departure he signified to the most influential gentry of ithe city his gracious pleasure to receive from them parting gifts of honorific tablets, congratulatory' banners, ete., with which the Chines as a rule, speed parting and-popnlay cficiais. The polite suggestion was of course interpreted as a demand, end the wniscrablé Teaders! cwt
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