To the uninitiate the sullying with yellow paint of the pavements in all the roads around the Bubbling Well and St. George's for the last. week of so now has a meaning, but to the initiate it tas meant all' along. that the Basket Fair of Bubbling Well Temple was due again, On Sunday, seemingly springing out of thin ait the fair was there, thronged with people, of al! nationalities and all lasses, ie' an annual show, this fair, Por tone week it blossoms from nowhere, to disappear as mysteriously as it came, For one week houses and shops are blotted out by matsheds erected against them, Piles of mei chandise clutter the pavement forcing pedestrians into the road~ way. Merchants clutter the roads, living in the midst of their goods for the seven days. And over all there is an atmosphere of calm excitement, of order despite the seeming chaos, 'The origin of the fair goes back for generations. It started' with the annual pilgrimage to the ancient Bubbling Well Temple, now almost ost in the midst of the modern buildings which surround it, this pilgrimage being in celebration of the legendary birthday of Buddha which, according to Chinese calculations, falls on the 8th day of the 4th moon, or May 10 this year, With this pilgrimage, peasants "and artisans for many miles around used to bring with them bamboo work, and other specimens heir work in order to sell them to ay for the cost of their pilgrimage. From this the fair has grown till now it is almost entirely a commer-
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