In another Jane, even narrower than this, is another pedlars" stronghold whish finally has surrendered atler repeated raids, It is a room entered with ditieully by sealing a Sort of chicken-ladder rising steeply from the obscure passage. From this fortre.s a good view up and down the alleyway has helped the former occupants to defy the law.
As we leave beggar-land we pass several human wretches returning afler a day on the open streets. They fare the usual types, unkempt, disensed, walking with a halting step that not affected here on their own (Continued from page 125.) find out who was in charge of them, but was told that their leader had gone on, So there was nothing for bout to stay the night there. tunately Thad a tin of beet with me fand some sandwiches, It was im= possible to sleep until the small Hours, singe the soldiers made stich din, and a wretched sing-song girl ingly.
was there that T first meta curious insect, glaucous and gelatin" ous-looking by fashlamp, and perhaps ff the spider tribe. I did not notice Tt, or its grandehitd, "until about 3 aim, when T was chasing mosquitoes, T'afopped a heavy. shoe on it, bu floated suddenly across the floor, Mtg Tega hardly touching even the surface, Like Ariel, it went with a wink, Then I discovered more them, and treated them with Fut, But ids merely blew them away. T offered them the last of my Keatings, fand they did not twink when I let a gentle shower fall on them. They ate some of it, twisting their heads with a motion somewhat like that of dragonfly, ran away from the ring of bright powder, and then came back for more. Again I tried my shoes, but they. were always too quick, which was chagrining, since T to consider myself a good shot with this form of missile, Finally blew them Into a comer of the room with Flit and managed to steep for a short while.
In the morning it rained in torrents, but 1 was lucky to yot bearers and a chair, and so travelled all day' to Chineblang, glad to find Mary Webb's "The' House in Dormer Forest" in' my baggage. There I found a better inn, The only visitor was a rat, keen on drinking the all from the native Jamp on the table As I had put up a mosquito curtain, warned by the trouble the night before, and was snugly tucked up, did not feel inclined to go hunting, ind we Kept it at bay for half-hour stretches by telling it in Chinese to buzz off, and flashing my. electric torch about. But in the early hours when, according to James Elroy Flecker, "dreams are brighter and winds: colder," the importunate rodent stole a-march on me and consumed the two. wicks.
Fortunately, it rained a yood deal less the next day. Late next after noon we reached Kiating, when I was delighted to find a. group. of foreigners about to set out by june for Suifu and Chungking, Luckily there was room for one more, and we spent a delightful three and a halt days gliding down the Min and Yangize—and soon to Shanghai, Arter the close of the biennial conference of the Chinese Medical Association, Dr, Edward H. Hume was invited to Nanking to attend the round table conference arranged by the Minister of Education for the discussion of the observations made fon a recent tour of hospitals in north China in which some twenty hospital superintendents participated, Afler returning from Nanking, Dr. Hume salled for Foochow to attend' a conference called for the discussion of the medical work of three missionary. societies in the northera part Fukien province, nomely, the Church Missionary Society (With its ally the Church of England Zenana' Misstonary Society), she American Method Ist Mission, anid the American Board Mission (Congregational). He will Feturn to Shanghai about April 30.
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