The one that Chiang Keng-foo aught was five inches long, or other, tall—but you should have een the one that got away.
This statement does not refer to ish (this is not a fish story) but men, And the one that got away vas only three inches tall believe it Chiang Keng-foo, a farmer's son, /ouches for the absolute truth of his tory, which appears in the "Sin-van pao" as follows:—'A few days ago Chiang, a sober-minded Jad, was cutting grass on jis father's farm at Han Tao Wu, ear Minghong, when he was very unch surprised' to see two men, one three inches tall and the other' five, ome out of an old grave and start jamboling about the field. Possibly hey had got tired of staying in the grave during all the heat and ad come out for air. Anyway, chiang down his scythe and forted for the Lilliputians. Naturally he men of small stature got fright~ ned and began to run as fast as heir tiny legs would carry them, vhich was not very fast, And here tragedy enters the story. chiang, in his excitement, crushed one of the men of small stature with nis foot and when he bent down to jock at the Lilliputian, the Lilliputin was dead, He had a kind ace t00, Of course, the other one got away, put Chiang' picked up the body of he trampled Lilliputian and took it there it viewed mouth agape. The little man, however, cannot be yen there now because Chiang has jold it to one Mr, Sun Hsien-shan, a gentleman whose whereabouts are not known by the bearers of the tale,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.