CHAPTER X. 



GOVERNMENT. 



In the first chapter I suggested to the 

 shooter that if he began shooting in China 

 with some idea of the peculiarities of the 

 language, the people, and the money he 

 would sometimes experience an advantage 

 which would more readily enable him to 

 overcome a real or avoid an apparent 

 difficulty. 



In this chapter I will submit a few 

 general observations on the government of 

 China, and the law the foreign shooter will 

 be amenable to, should he offend, and the 

 legal remedy that will be employed against 

 him while in China. If I succeed in 

 presenting a practical view of this subject 

 I shall not feel that I have materially 

 digressed from the title of this book ; and 

 it is proper and interesting to know 

 something of the government of the 

 country in which a sojourn, even for 

 a short time, is made. 



In theory and practice the government of 

 China is as peculiar and as mixed as the 



