Perhaps one of the most interesting of his prophecies, though one for which he expects to be laughed at, day. The wood is veneered, cut size and pressed at the joint but the paper completing the box is put on by the buyers—varlous manufeeturers of the many different brands of matches one finds in China. The boys carefully examined everything. from the huge ponds where the bulks of Umber are seasoned for two or three months before use to the packing operations of the product leaving the factory. We all learnt a lot for few of us had previously considered the making of such a triviality as a matchbox, Towards noon we arrived at Chaki where we intended spending the night, SUMMER Trip the Chientang River fcaimp at Chat The chief of police very kindly gave permission to camp on the police drill ground, an ideal spot that would make any campeook turn six somer-'Saults for sheer Joy. A low bluff with step allowed the making of camp: kitchens de luxe within easy reach of the tents and the groups showed keen competition in the "quickest and best" cooking race. The bathing at Chaki was not so good, the river being fairly shallow for our hardy and by this time the fearless crowd did not relish the glorified paddling in three or four fect. For myself, bathed not; red as a lobster, and £6el-ing much the same as this crustacean when he tries to lift the saucepan id for the last time, I watched from the kindly shade of the doctor's umbrella,
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