When all the preparations had been completed, there walked into the village one day a miserable. looking Chinese beggar. The mad Snearnation immediately went to welcome him and at once showed him to his seat on the throne. The Tamas were surprised, shocked, chagrined, disgusted. Days of painstaking preparation for a Chinese The beggar lays of unremitting Inbour decorating the village for a Chinese sugar; days of anxious expectation for a Chinese tecrar! The ques: how long were they family:—"Who is the oldest, the father or the son?" The family entertained him to sweet potatoes, He laughed when no other body did. He apparently saw things no. other ady did. When the Dalai Lam came to see him, he barked like a dog, and when' @ poor Chinese berar came to the village he treated his like a royal prince, However, patience suffereth lon and is kind. Not only was the Bebar prepared to treat this beggar royally, but evidently he was bent on giving him all he had. One day he invited all the neighbours to Dung all their valuables as a. present to the berger. "What for? they asked in indignant The Temas in the temple were not permitted to listen to the conversations hich took place between the beggar and the Bebar. Silently, however, they carefully watched what was taking place and noted what passed between the mad incarnation and the Chinese beggar. That some secret intercourse was taking place they had little doubt. One day the beggar produced from his garment a long piece of paper, and slowly he read over the contents to the Bebar. When this was done he drew out an immense seal and deliberately stamped the document. He then handed it to the lama. The character being in Chinese, he merely looked at it, folded it up and it inside his garment. All this the drabas saw from between the cracks.
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