In their native village, the tw! kept a small tea-house. Born 38 years 60, the man had been brought up. by the old lady since infancy. " Lis grund-parents and his parents and other relatives, except his cousin on his father side, died. His faint remembrance of the existence ofa relative} was refreshed, to the rear rejoicing of the family and" their neighbours, when a letter was received from the cousin {rom Shanghai. Deprived of almost eve: ything by the recent. flood, the two decided to come to Shanghai to look for the relative who almost had been forgotten before hic letter came, As far as he could remember, his. great-great-grand mother wor bon in' the! village in the Ath year of the Emperor Tao Kwang. She was) married toa. Br. did' not. escape same fate, the eon Pnote by Mr. 0.
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