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Q. 230. How high is the City of willows? 



A- As high as one's eyes can reach. 



G 231. How broad is it? 



A. As broad as the two Capitals and 13 provinces. ( l ) 



Q. 232. How many doublé walls are there around the Willow-city? 



A. There are live doublé walls. 



Q,. 233. How can you prove that? 



A. I can prove it by a verse. 



ft. 234. How does this verse run? 



A. The Willow-city has five doublé walls: 



Within are the brethern who pledged fraternity. 



Shields and spears are piled as high as sun and moon; 



We have sworn before suu and moon to adopt all the name of Hung. 



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ken city. He was , immediately , besieged and surrounded by the whole rebel army, and all supplies were cut 

 off. After three months , they were well nigh starved out; but, by means of a miraculous swarm of bats, 

 they found a subterranean granary filled with rice, on which they subsisted for some time. But, at 

 last, the Emperor resolved to send some one to the capital Chang-ngan, to get a relieving army. A 

 certain Cking-yao-kini ^g p£ "sE ) P resea t e d himselffor this dangerous errand. He was very nearly 

 arrested in running the blockade, but was lifted away by a furious whirl-wind, and set down at the 

 irontiers of China. Quite bewildered by this incident he thought himself at the gates of Hades; but 

 was restored to his senses by an old priest who named himself Shie-yang-tang ( flJ- Jj& ^ ) 

 (perhaps Shie-pang-hang of Q. 180), and continued his journey towards the capital to fetch the relieving 

 army. In the meau time the princess Thu-lu feil in love with Lo-tung I %të :jj|| 1 , general of 

 Tai-tsung; and, out of love for him, she assisted the Emperor so effectually that he gained victory af- 

 ter victory over her father, whom she induced, at last, to lay down his arms and make his peace with 

 the Emperor. Khang-wang having submitted, was again invested with the royal authority, and Tai-tsung 

 left Muh-yang-ching, and returned to China. (See the g^ j^ ^ -j^ ? or Narrative of the 

 posterior records of Thang, Vol. I — II.) 



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