By the time T ¥eached Chimen T had made acquaintance with some of the minor troubles of driving a car in the Interior. Wherever one stopped, even if it was ina seemingly entirely deserted spot, a crowd of onlookers Would spring'up, as If from nowhere. They would walk solemnly round the ear with heads cocked on one side, just og if they were the most prof lent experts appraising all Its points. One would not have minded that so much, if they had confined them= solves to looking on, even though they did get in one's way and hinder operation: "But their curiosity took more objoc-Honable forms, 'They would finger every. projection, bolt or screw,, the' oer handles quite particularly" attracting their attention, and they could never resist the temptation of working them violently up and down, as If they' were pump handles. With the result that when T reached Chlmon the locking door would "not function, so that T had all the trouble of unloading the ear, and before T reached Nanchang my jack and other Important tools were stolen, On the following day, atter entering Kanga, the rond became excellent again and one could got up a speed of ver 40 miles an hour, so hat T passed Kingtechen, the pottery town, early in the morning and was already reekoning on reaching Nanchang inthe atlornoon, About five miles beyond the bus station of Loping which 7 passed without searcely noticing, not oalizinig ut the moment what a close, acquaintance I was' fated to. make with that spot, T had to stop to fill ess, back to Tientsin rather than work under. such conditions, They had not a cent, and when T asked them on what they lived, they said they had been pawning their clothes: from their very ragged condition they looked as if they were already pretty close to starvation, 'So they were glad enough to corn couple of dollars by helping to tow the ear back to the bus-station. Here, fater T had produced my credentials, the station people agreed to. telephone to Kingtchchen, only 30 miles Jaway, and ask them' to sond down a filter by the next morning's bus. "The Kinglehchen people refused to so, And T would add here, that, with one notable exception, T found Klangst road people very surly unhelpful, in contrast to those In Chekiang and Anhwei,
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