It is not fo be expected that the Chinese, with their genius for Iterary quips and cynicisms, would overtook such a tempting object for their wit fas the willing of an official document, Perhaps the best known of their sayings is the one which makes ght the supposed diMculties which must be overcome before a berton Is capable of undertaking such a task, and compares it to drawing a gourd (hulu), intimating that inspire of the multiplicity of documents in form they differ very little from one other.
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