Peichihko is but a short distance from the Southeastern University; in fact, they are separated only by a maloo oF carriage road. Hence, the frequency with which its students grace that hill with their honour-fle presence! How fortunate there students are who may daily come Into intimate contact with such a lovely hill and beautiful trees!
The maloo in Nanking has been so hadly built that sharp points of stones project above its surface here and there and everywhere throughout the whole length of the, road." Pedestrians walking over i often find their "shoes pierced through, and sometimes their feet are injured as well. Therefore, upon reaching the Bamboo Gate at the foot of the hill, although I was always on the alert, my feet were sore. I was compelled to sit down on a large square of stone and take off my shoes, to Fest my feet, Hardly had T ensconced myself in this comfortable position, than saw two police men, each with a carbine slung en his back, marching past me. Uneonsciously' my eyer were attracted by their soldierly Li gait, following them step by step, as if T'were a man enchanted by some magical spell. Suddenly, a motor car shot past me from east to west, and the loud and sharp notes of its horn woke me up from my trance and broke the charm from the pair of plodding policemen. I raised: my head and was-surprieed: to see that the hands of the large clock of the University showed that it was already past four.
Up still Work..
"Let me speed my pace, for it: will be dark in another hour's time," soliloquized to myself. Whereupon, T rose and marched onward. bravely. Tt was up-hill work, but I recalled to my mind how lightheartedly T had always accompanied my schoolmates on the march when. making an extensive excursion into the country side or travelling over a stiff distance on foot; or how nonchalantly did I respond to the call of our master to mount a hill from its foot during a drill exercise, and how easily and invariably had I been the first to reach the top; though, of course, feeling the strain when the task was done. Details of these youthful achievements were still Vivid in my mind. I felt so refresh-fed at these recollections that I wanted to test my own powes by, repeating my hill-climbing feat. of the past. My legs answered, my will splendidly. I began to mount two steps at every bound, and I kept on doing so to my own infinite delight. I counted that, from the foot of the hill to the gate of the Temple, I made 119 paces in all which must have covered 238 steps, which must. be the number of the steps of the natural but man-made Indder on the hill side,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.