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There a stone box was dug up, from which a brilliant light 

 shone ; -but as soon as the swords were taken out of the box 

 their spirits in the sky were extinguished. On one of the swords 

 the characters f|^, lung-ts'uen, "Dragon-spring", on the other 

 "^ ppj" , fai-o, were written. According to the astrologer such 

 supernatural swords could not remain for a long time in human 

 hands. Actually one of them soon disappeared, and the other 

 one afterwards jumped by itself out of its sheath into a river, 

 which its owner was crossing. When it was sought, nothing was 

 found except two dragons, two or three chang long, wound 

 together and emittiog a brilliant light which illuminated the 

 water. Then they vanished, raising turbulent waves by their 

 violent movements. Evidently the swords had changed into dragons 

 and were united again. 



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