British army boots are now a com: mon footwear here on the border and those who have the privilege of walking in them somehow feel they are connected with a nation that ha¢ accomplished something in the past. One day we saw a British red coat for sale on the streets here and we pul wondered what glorious history pathetic love story lay behind it. The Tibetans are very fond of these military. red coats as adornment for their Tibetan boots, the material being very strong and durable. But the pléee de resistance on the Root of the" World is a British Tommy's button, 'The big gun with its two cannon balls may be all right, and Took triumphant defending the door of any Chinese public office, but the gentle Tibetan maiden very shyly. Says, "British Tommy, how much for" your buttons?" 'Throughout Kham' the 'Tibetan girls have all] manner of British soldiers' buttons adorning their belts and even Solomon in all his glory failed to for by the hilarious Dut we have never been impress ed by the fact Two nights ego a young Lhasa buck made the the ex: periment on air and whisky and when
not all she was supposed to be. He re-aot home' he. da covered i, wite pudiated her affections and did with a couple of revolvers. She was a native of Nya-rong and the natives of Nya-rong also enjoy a Farified atmosphere which is supposed to be much lighter than ordinary air. Fortunately she jumped high enough to dodge the bullet but it went through the partition and through the (high bone of a young Batang: girl lying in te adjoining room. It Must have been a terrible shock to this young Tibetan girl who has a very small baby to attend to. Very soon the man from Lhasa experimenting on alr and whisky was disarmed, arrested, and conveyed to a place of fately. When Dr. James arrived on the "scene the young mother w here de combat and the Bang-d>~ song establishment in a state of] panic. The Tibetans visiting Chieniu drink considerable quantities of whisky, failing however, till it is too late, t0 relate its reaction to Light air, From a place of safety the Lhasa man was removal to the Chinese yamen where he is carefully guarded Wit the woman Is out of dang
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