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Q. 197. Do you know how many cents there are in each bundie? 

 A. I know how man}' there are. 



Q. 198. How can you prove that? 

 A. I can prove it by a verse. 



CL 199. How does this verse run? 



A. On the bridge of two planks are hanging- paper- cent-bundles; 



Tt is, nianifesüy, the family Huug connected together. [ l ) 

 It' the amount of the paper-cent-bundles is asked — 

 It is 3 myriads, 8 hundred, and 21 thousand. ( 2 ) 



— vX Tm 



± « m m 



t » m # m é 



* n m m % # m 



A S -H- - --f 



O,. 200. Did you go over the bridge? 



A. No, I passed under the bridge. 



Q,. 201. Why did you not pass over the bridge? 



A. On the bridge stood the venerable images of the five fouuders, wlwui I dared not 



pass; therefore I passed underneath. 



G. 202. The water underneath the bridge is so deep; how could you cross it? 

 A. The Hungwater flowed athwart 86 and 1:1 ( 3 ); but when the myriads of adoptive 



long: twenty four of these slips are bound together in a bimdle and form then the so-called Long-casJi 



I -|g ial)» ^ n religious ceremonies these bundles are burned; popular superstition believing tliem to be 



changed into copper money for the use of the Gods. 



Fig. 1. ïhe paper-raoney-leaf with the notches representing cash, of yellow paper. 



Fig. 2. ïhe paper-leaf torn to form a strip. 



Fig. 3. The long*cash, consisting of 24 of the strips represented in fig. 2 , tied together in a bun die 



with peaeh-rtd paper-rings. 



( ! ) Vari : „ If the character Hung is joined it is manifest." $t ±^ -fö gg ^ jft tjfl • 



viz: y thrce; A. eight (for ~j=| hundred); -J-j* twenty; and — ■ one; out of which characters the 



character % zifc hung, is composed. 

 ( 2 ) i, e. 3, 8, 21, with the meaning as explained in the above note. 



o m # m iM % = * -t -. 



This answer is quite unintelligible; and can, as most of the former answers of this catechism, be resolved 

 only by an initiated. We suppose that the numbers 36 and 72 are the component parts of soine charac- 



