The story told by the foreigners is thet they arrived at Soochow at abet 10.30 a.m. and proceeded to a place known as the Village Ton, where they made arrangements to stay for two Tt was then decided to go for a ride before lunch and donkeys were hired. When the party hed proceeded for about mile they were offered some ponies and they exchanged their mounts. They then went for a ride down the main road that leads to the: Electric Light Works and for short journey into the country. Shortly before noon it was resolved to ro-torn with the ponies to the place where they had been obtained, but when the destination of the party had been almost reached they saw carriages and ricshas rashiog towards them from a general stand that is close to the entrance to the Chinese city. The mafoos and rica coolies apdot who was associated with Santa peared to taken of Clans and whose appearance—with their senses and col fall realization of word-valaes' most of them were narrowly can only be described as "angelic. averted. The carriages and rioshas The girls who appeared as Chinese soon began to crash together, the ladies showed that in the costume of coolies deserted their ricshas aod fled ald Ching the epi ritual beauty of as if for their lives, while the mafoos Baropean childhood cannot be bidder jumped down from' their boxes cat some may even thiok it may be loose the ponies from the carriages, gahanced.
Mesers. B. and C, Wilton mooted and galloped away. The acquitted themselves well in their tneigners were able to move but slowly, and io s very short space of No notice of the performance would time " mob could be seen bearing down be complete without laudatory reference on them. Thinking that some high to the splendid work—in which skill official was passing and that the people and wonderfal patience must have been by Mrs. W. R. Parkio, wore being driven back to make way for him, bat at the same tine who was entirely responsible for the wondering at such panic, the whole charming entertainment. The foreigners weet forward at a walk, young artists, we understand, are mem-bat just as they got to " bend in the bers of her dancing classes and they roadway they saw some bandrede certainly acquitted themselves with of Chinese soldiers in great confusion. honour to themselves and to the The Chinese wore yelling, fighting and str actress. scrambling. and persons were being
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