Feb. 12—Rubber has come to stay in the Chinese countryside: in days gone by no Vehicle but the narrow-tyred wheelbarrow carried burdens in the country: now ihe soft-tyred bicycles take sacks of rice as well as passengers, while rubber-tyred rickshas ply the widened ways.... and, greatest miracle of all, hand-carts with great wide rubber tyres carry heavy loads of brick or timber as if they were but feathers.... While a paternal "Kungboo" grants licenses for carts thus tyred at but a fraction of the former cost. But how to find these magic wheels which grow upon the foreign "Motok like rarest fruits which can alone be plucked
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