170 



If there is a stranger going with you to the house of a brother, you ought to lay within 

 the threshold one shoe with the sole upwards, and the other, with the sole downwards. 



If you are travelling, and you wish to give a sign, you can take your umbrella in your 

 left hand, and wind your handkerchief or something else around the handle of the umbrella. 



If you wear a rain — or straw-hat, you ought to hold it with the top outwards and put 

 three nnsrers in the crown of it. 



If you meet some one on the road, you ought to give a sign with your clothes , handker- 

 chief or cue. 



Ifyou have affairs, you hang your cue behind your left ear; you can, also, gird your waist 

 Avith your handkerchief and lay a faithful-heart knot ( l ) in it. You can, also, leave the two 

 buttons on the collar of your coat unbuttoned, so that the lappet of your coat is hanging 

 open. ( 2 ) 



You may, also, tuck up the right leg of your pantaloon, whilst letting the left leg hang 

 down. 



If you enter the house of a man whom you don't know, say this quatrain : 



I have not yet met you, 

 And I fear the drafts of wind- 

 Three hundred and tweuty one ( 3 ) 

 Are, all together, of' one clan. 



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If people ask you where you were born, answer: „I was born under the peach-trees in the 

 red-flower pavilion." 



If one asks you when you were born, answer: „I was born on the 25th of the 7th moiith 

 of the year Kah-yin. ( 4 ) 



If you wish to pass the night in an inn and the innkeeper asks you : 



The Hung-gate opens like the character Pah; 

 If you've no money we don't want you to enter. 



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[~) Comp. pag. 54. 



( s ) i. e. Ilung ^t , » The Hung-people." (Comp. Introduction, 3). 



( 4 ) Aug. 23, 1734; the date of the foundation of the league. (Comp. p. 17). 



