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wonders, gave me a start and a pain; it was the one 
blemish of the afternoon. 
You would not know Tom and me out driving. 
We have a victoria with rubber tires and two men on 
the box, if you please; these are dressed in bright 
green with funny round straw hats and long black 
pigtails down their backs; but they understand very 
little English and you have to speak quite a queer 
lingo to make them understand. For instance : if we 
want to say, ‘‘Drive back to the hotel; it is getting 
near dinner time,’’ we would say : ‘‘Me wantee chow; 
go hotel chop chop.’’ 
As yet I have not been around to see Mary Wend- 
ell, really for the simple reason that I know she would 
not remember me and I should dislike to be compelled 
_to explain to her who I am and why I came. I can- 
not get over Emma Atherton really married and set- 
tled. 
Give my love to every one and with a great deal 
especially to you and yours, 
Most affectionately, 
Ros. 
Chefoo, May 23, 1907. 
Dear Father and Mother : 
We had a very foggy trip from Shanghai to 
Chefoo, which is our port of call before Tientsin 
whence we take the railway for Pekin, which railway 
by the way is paying forty per cent. It has been very 
cold and foggy indeed and we are nearly a day late 
now, so that our time in Pekin will be shorter than 
we had hoped for, as we take the Korea from Shang- 
hai to Japan on the 4th. From there, as I think 
