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answer then: 



Three hundred and twetity one ( 2 ) 

 Without money have jet to eat. 



H A =1 + - 



lui: 



# & 



# 



If the innkeeper asks you 



answer then: 



Three hundred and twenty three ( 3 ) 



If you've no money take off your clothes. 



H A n + H 



m n m ■& 



v 



Three hundred and twenty four ( 4 ) 



When they have eaten enough they go to look at the theatricals. ( 3 ) 



+ H 



SECTION II. 



Meeting with robbers or pirates. 



If you meet on your journey with a brother who //shoots partridges" ( 6 ), and he is going 

 to attack you, you ought to say: „I am a valiant ïïung and not a partridge." If he then 

 says: „I want also to shoot the Hun g-her oes," answer him: //You want to shoot also the 



(!) This is a parody on a common Chinese proverb which runs : » The gates of a mandarin's office go open like 

 the character pak (the door having two folds); without money t'is useless to enter them" — , being an al- 

 lusion to the rapacity of the Chinese officials. 



( 2 ) The ÜKtt^r-brethem. 



4 3 ) This, too, means Hung ; the last character being changed into the character san (three) to rhyme on nam 

 (clothes). 



(*) As in the above note, si (four) rhymes on ld (theatricals). 



( 5 ) Played at the lodge. 



( G ) i. e. a highway-man , one who assaults the passer-by. 



