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If people say that you have a youthf ui face, answer: , f I have peach-flowers on my face.-" ( J ) 

 If people say that you wear a grass-blade on your head, answer: /,It is the hard (hair)- 



root." ( 2 ) 



If people say: //Your coat is not buttoned," answer: //It is, properly speaking, a surplice." ( s ) 

 If people say: //There is fowl's dung on your coat," answer: //It is the ashes of a sil- 



ver preciosity." ( 4 ) 



If people say: //How your coat is torn!" answer: //It is, properly, a ragged coat." ( 5 ) 



If people say: //Your coat is old," answer: //It was made three days ago." ( 6 ) 



If they say: //Your coat is new," answer: //It was made three mornings later." ( 7 ) 



If people say that your legs are too long or too short, answer: //My legs are like the cha- 



racter Chung-ming-i ; they are civil and military legs." ( 8 ) 



If people say that your eye-brows are too bushy or too scraggy, answer: „ïn the lelt one 



there are 36 hairs, in the right one 72, together, 108 hairs. ( 9 ) 



If people say that your eyes are so large or so small, answer: „1 have eyes like the cha- 



racter Ming. ( l0 ) 



If people ask you: „Whence did the light come?" answer: //The light caine from the holy 



Temple." ( n ) 



If people say that your face is pale, answer: //The face of Si-ski was pale, but her heart 

 was red." ( l2 ) 



SECTION IV. 



Secret signs with tea-cups. 



If a brother presents you tea, no matter if there are many or a few cups, you ought to 

 pour the tea in the cups back again into the tea-pot. Next you pour the tea again into the 

 cups, and you may drink of it without any more ceremonies. 



(>) ps ^ m & 



( 2 ) W * < 3 ) * ê M B 



( 4 ) ft W $<> i 5 ) $ S ^ S 



( 6 ) % « H O # f H i 



( 8 ) & $} Wt ^ M' lC & M' ~~ W is composed of a short sun ( ) and a long nioon 



< 9 > ± # -Hf ^. * M ~b + z:. # m - ^ # a. 



(10) RH ±±! ||j^» with the same meaning as giveD in note 8. 



<"> 'X # M M ffil * 



< 12 ) M Wi 55 & W & Pi $X- Uei means sincere - ' See i*&- » 9 > note '•> 



