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grand as a prince. He has perhaps three outriders 
ahead, on frightful horses with rope reins; five 
mounted men follow his eart, all on equally awful look- 
ing beasts. Then a little farther along you will meet 
a Manchu lady, most daintily dressed in embroidered 
coat and blue trousers, painted up like anything, long 
fingernails with gold tips to protect them, and hair 
done up over a cross-board at the back of her head 
with two flowers stuck in it to give it a bit of color. 
She is most coy and plays at objecting to having her 
photograph snapped. The Chinese women dress in 
many different colors and pinch their feet into bro- 
caded shoes not more than two and a half inches long. 
The shops on both sides of the streets are works 
of art. The whole front is a mass of the most delicate 
wood carving and they are always filled with most at- 
tractive articles. You would go wild over the old china 
and porcelain. I saw two fine old dogs, the same style 
or kind as the two you have on your mantle piece, only 
they were larger and better and about six hundred 
years old. I was very anxious to get them for you, but 
he asked so much that I could not : a thousand dollars 
for the pair. But they are beauties. We have not 
spent much time shopping, as sight-seeing is so much 
more pleasant. 
Give my love to every one and with a great deal 
for yourself, 
Affectionately, 
Rosamond. 
