Apparently, on his scheme, there was to be a tax on the farmers in the rear of the dyke at the broken or threatened portions, and should be noted en passant that most of this land was already flooded and therefore yielding no return this year. Those farmers with less than five mow of land were compelled to forced Jabour also, and the payment from the public funds raised by the aforesaid taxation, after filtering through his hands, would repay these farmers about 400 cash a day (40 coppers) if lucky, as on the other Government scheme the work there only enables a man to earn 900 cash a day after all tha various squeezes have been deducted. It would seem to me that they would have been well advised to handle the work entirely themselves, and secure this middle man's profit for their own pockets, but I presume they had no such option in reality. To continue my story, I ejected the aforesaid satellites, or rather perhaps it is politer to say that were persuaded to move themselves and their baggage elsewhere, and then I started my foremen in to clean up the place, while I took the Jaunch up river in order to visit Anlu, the hsien city some 30 /i away.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.