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If a robber attacks you with a sword, you can also say. „I did not fear on a certain 

 day tAVO swords ( l ); how should I then be afraid of your single sword;" 



A single sword may only frighten people; 



Why don't you rather exterminate the Tartars with. two swords? 



You, my adopted brother, stop me on the road; 



But our brethern are all heroes of Hung. 



m tj x- m # s a 



M % m 71 * M if 



I A J5 1: I t t 



* ■ n mm m -m ^ 



If you meet a robber on the road and you see an empty enclosure, enter it, and say: 

 //We all are people from the garden." ( 2 ) Draw then with your stick or umbrella a line 

 across it, so that it forms the character clmng ( 3 ), and continue your road. 



If there is a stick standing in this enclosure, enter the garden and, puiling ifc out, bran- 

 dish it three times above your head, saying: u Chau-tsz-lung has helped our lord with a single 

 club to break through the ranks." ( 4 ) Throw then this stick away and continue you road. 



If there is a grass-blade in this garden, pull in out and go eastwards, or put the blade 

 of grass in your hair, saying this quatrain: 



Under the foot of man and Icing is a heap of sand; 

 Above the JEast-gate grow flowers and grass; 

 A silk-thread is run through a needie with éleven eyes; 

 Sheep , goot and good wine is our familg ( 5 ). 



( 2 ) The „arch of steel", bridge of doublé swords on the day of affiliation. 



( 2 ) » The peachgarden", (see pag. 2,) 



( 3 ) pfa middle, here meant for ftt faithful. 



( 4 ) Liu-pi had five valiant geuerals, called Kwan-kung I jj^j Jfc* J , Chang-fi (^ ^ 1, Chau-tsz-lung, 

 \$L "~^" "fÜlf ^ a " c ^ ao ( M& tÜ) an ^ Hwang-chung I j|f ;gj )• They were called the 



five tlger-generals ( ^L mi TïvrM anc '- ^ ie y were intimate friends. 



( 5 ) This is a very interesting and, seemingly, most unintelligible verse, but we soon found that it was no- 

 thing else but an analytic description of the four characters ■££ ■ ^Ê j&jjj 3Ü» "^ u *' ie g°^ en 

 orchid we have pledged fraternity." The character A>- is composed of the elements J^ man; 

 ^£ . king; and \, ƒ, a nea P °^ san( l. 



The character ]||] is composed of the elements W . east ; ^ . gate ; and TT j grass or plants. 

 The character &*; is composed of the elements ^, silk, silkthread ; Ju j eleven, and p ? mouth, 

 eye. 



