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very deep places. Outside the coal there is a 

 coal dew (probably moisture on the coal). 



What do you guess that I saw? (said the 

 coal). Let our sons and our grandsons (pieces 

 of coal) go to the place where the marriage 

 feast is being held (so people can cook food) . 

 The Buddha you are talking about can only 

 sit on the edge of the cloth (he is embroidered 

 there). We, the coal beings, tomorrow morn- 

 ing at daybreak will separate our sons and 

 daughters to a place where there is meat (to 

 cook) . 



Water said that its name was ch'ih f{|J (in 

 Chinese; in Miao, //•). Heat said that its 

 name was smoke. Water said, "I will not be 

 evil or hard to deal with. If I am fierce I will 

 not come." Water wants to eat people's nine 

 quarts of rice (when rice is cooked) on the 

 big stone bench. 



The smoke said, "I will not be fierce or 

 evil. If I am fierce, I will not come," and the 

 smoke went up to die empty heaven. It 

 promised water for nine generations of people. 

 The smoke drank Je Gu Leo's (Se^ gu*^ Uu^) 

 ten loads of water and it was not enough. 



Two Roc^s at Lo-Hai^^ (230) 



I constantly roam over the world and arrive 

 at Glang Ga's road. Speaking of the earth, I 

 have roamed all over the sky. I went to the 



residence of Ntzi's Glang Ts'ai (hungry de- 

 mon). Ntzi's demons arose and led Glang 

 K'e (a thirsty demon) to the place he was to 

 control. When he was through controlling 

 he lived outside of heaven (or die sky). 

 When he got a place to live he lived on the 

 other side of the place. He controlled much 

 of heaven and earth, but there was much of 

 heaven and earth besides what he controlled. 



Ntzi's Do Nke came down and looked. He 

 saw that on the plain at Hai Lo there is a big 

 ice rock. From above he flew down near it. 

 Ntzi's two talented boys said, "Hai Lo Plain's 

 big rock did not come from (the earth) be- 

 low." Ntzi's strong son said, "This black stone 

 has been carried here by Glang Mo Ts'e. The 

 ice rock was also carried here by Glang Mo 

 Ts'e (a demon that carries things). That 

 black stone is firm like a hat made of bamboo. 

 That ice stone is like both a pig and a hat." 



Ntzi's two able sons came down from 

 heaven onto the great precipice. They were 

 given a piece of land by Ntz'i. They saw 

 that there was another black stone that came 

 up from the lower flat. They saw that the 

 stones could be piled up into one pile (one 

 piled on the other). They piled one on the 

 other. The ice stone (a white stone) is firm 

 like a great precipice. The black stone stood 

 up like a stone bamboo sprout. 



The song is ended.'*- 



ANCIENT HISTORY 

 Chinese 



The Building of the Great Wall by Ch'in 

 Shih-htiang (39) 



When Ch'in Shih-huang built the great wall 

 he caused the death of people of many locali- 

 ties. He almost caused the death of many 

 others. Only five brothers were left alive, and 

 they could not avoid going and building. 

 They could only weep every day. 



One day they met a woman who carried a 

 red string in her hand. She asked, "What are 

 you crying about.?" They said to her, "Be- 

 cause Ch'in Shih-huang seized us and mis- 



^^ Lo Hai is the local name of a spot near 

 Lo Piao Y^ ^J in Szechwan on the Szechwan- 

 Yunnan border. 



*2 The black stone is a demon stone. It must 

 be fed rice and other food. It must not be seized 

 by the hands or struck lest you become hungry or 

 thirsty. The feeding is for the same reason. 

 There is no other rock of this kind within tens 

 of //. The white stone is called an ice stone and 

 is treated like the black stone. Both are feng- 

 shui stones. 



treated us and made us build the great wall. 

 We can't build it, and will be beaten to death 

 by his rulers, and that is what we are weep- 

 ing about." The woman said, "Do not fear. 

 I will lend you the red string in my hand. 

 You can use it to carry stones." They then 

 used this red string to tie up the rocks and 

 without using much strength they carried 

 back (on their backs) the stones and com- 

 pleted the great wall. Shih-huang asked them, 

 "How do you work so quickly?" They then 

 told in detail about their weeping and the 

 woman's giving them the red string to carry 

 stones with. Shih-huang said, "Now the wall 

 is built. Don't work any more. Give that 

 red string to me." 



Ch'in Shih-huang then wound the red 

 string into a ball and twisted it into a whip. 

 When he used it to beat the hills they would 

 crumble down. When he beat a river with 

 it, the river would be divided. He thought, 

 "I will certainly beat down the southern 

 mountains to block the north sea with." Then 

 the old dragon king heard it and feared 



