All would go on merrily on these lines, if some jealous soul had not Put pen to paper and warned the civil authorities that a new super tion is springing up right in heart of busy Hankow. Ho has suggested that the authorities should take steps to suppress this whole thing as a fraud, as of course every think Knows that it is in essence. If this advice shipping the god had received for some time, till a sick person came along and' for some reason offered his prayers and his incense to this wayside god instead of to one of the more important gods in the temple of the: monastery. The act was appreciated and the sick man is taken, little T'u Ti Kung Kung will lapse back into his former quiet existence and the whole ten coolies will have to look for burdens to carry instead of relying on the kneeling-mats and ashes of the incense for the riches that Kung Kung exists to supply.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.