The legend of Miao Shan is well known in Pootoo, but strange to say, only as it appears in an abbreviated print in which whole chapters of the original legend are missing, for instance the story of the relations to the Dragon King. True that there are in temples the figures to which this chapter refers, namely besides the Madonna her "two Akolyths," the boy Shan Tsai, the "Well-gifted One" and Lung-nue, the "Dragon-Maiden, as well as Lung Wang, the "Dragon-King" and Ao Yue, "the Dragon-Fish," but just this chapter is omitted in the only version circulating on the island, and which cannot be found there, making it evident that it is not used for thei general teaching. not gripe or bind. It's the answer to child health in 5,000,000 homes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.