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You onght to answer with these verses: 



The red banner flutters! 



The heroes are all convoked! 



To overturn Tsing, restore Ming, 



And protect the lord of the dynasty of Mine. 



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SECTION VIII. 



Secret sigks at chewing betel. 



If the host offers you the betel-tray and requests you to chew betel , you must not take a 

 bundie of leaves, but only a single leaf. But you must take care not to fchrow away the 

 stalks and points of the leaves. In smearing the lime on the leaf you ought to make a 

 circle on it crossed by a line, forming the character Chuvg. ( 2 ) 



Quatrain on the betel-nut. 



The betel-nut grows originally at Hai-nan ( 3 ); 

 But the roads in the whole empire intercommunicate. 

 The unanimous brethern come to chew it together — 

 Pure it enters the gate, but becomes quite red. ( 4 ) 



(*) Properly it should be Po ming chao chü , but C7tü has shifted its place for Ohao for the sake of the 

 rhyme with the characters Pkiao and Chao. 



( 2 ) pfcï ( 3 ) A large Island at the South coast of China. 



(*) This is a doublé allusion; the new member enters with white clothes the Hung-gate, but, beiug affilial 

 he adopts the name of Hung (red), as, also, the betel-leaf enters the mouth pure luit, being chev 

 becomes red. 



