But, the entice Lin family itsett! is probably "the most remarkable lfanily ever in' existence, or on! pope' "Te is apparently nearly to! ENousand years yider even then any recorded. Chinese history, the' frst Ssceriainable date of "which wax Grae. On page 19%, we Sint da The library: arebieves that. surround this court we shall cross nex one. hundred and. Tou cerations, previous to the branch
un the xeneralogy" can thy ose of Bul reared the fits couple who mated here.
Sipe tater Hak been born inside its stout grey This makes 139 generations, zno ears, apparently, but there being none of that quarrelling so dear to
oven jon to develop them, doubtless family, they have had no running here there usin. the court thorowghtare in all hinds of One could, in a sudden burst of secrecy, "slip over the. wall" one passionate Lin daughter did shether who did ave fast travelling 140), the same agile you
the This remarkable wall. is in three months an mn avy thick "and= four "times a man's height" (p. 31), however, surrounding: the entire" homestead. (The wall around the Emperor's Peking, the "Forbidden City", lonly twenty-two feet, high!) " One Imust have great admiration for this trepid Lin daughter, without benefit of parachute, but who knows Jwhat wonders Indian fakirs are able to perform, A. family. wita {such a remarkable wall would na-ally produce daughters able to slip over it!
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explain them adequately, so can would require another Yohime only: mention now the most obvious to the un-Chinese aye.
T have never heard of the teapot: which prevents. misunderstanding' (p20 pas. 4), bat am sorry: Mise fain did nol' partake of it, suficiently to aid in her use of that "row, of Chinese books and dictionaries" which she seem to have sed so assiduously. would have helped great! cone comes to fathoming the The mouth with poeticisms and. bits of we dom on the Toast provocation. sound has four (in' Mandarin) or As you may know, every Chinese more tones, there being from one to dozens of different characters in tench tone pronounced, of course, exactly alike but with entirely different meanings, each one frequent-having several meanings in itself
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