I paid a visit to Tientsin recently, the unsettled state of the countryside communications frequently spit in each others faces, but to-day they enjoyed a somewhat different experience. Very early in the forenoon a large and weary-ooking camel arrived in the city from Jedo and took up its quarters Ina Chinese inn. outside the cast gate. Tachienlu is neither easily exelfed nor worried, but the arrival of a camel is quite a blue moon experience, so the city rushed to the temporary 200.
The poor east seemed the! worse for wear and no doubt looked forward ito a rest In. this border city. Such, not to be, however, fas the school child in were soon flocking to sce something had never seen before, 'True, their schoo! books had shown' them' camels, but here was one that lived, moved and rudely spat in their ' faces. The Chinese schoolbook had somehow missed this point, everything being @eseribed about the creature, but his nasty habit, Quite innocently Duneh of school boys approached the camel and while carefully watching its peculiar movements, the brute deliberately spat in. their faces, The experience seemed new
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