Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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inltance, e bottll of ginger al. , or
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produced them with a face llke a piece of "'ood, ... if
he
had never
heard of
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elle in hi,
life .
I
recoll ect one. al ...e ... re going on
a trip of .averal
day.
on the river, and were goill& to Itart after dinner
in
the
evening.
I
sa1d, ·Polin ,
haTe
(
have you) got milk7' -Rave got,
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replled Polin.
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&
aid,
wI IUPPOU
you have got it for one
day"
Ule , but after that . ho... falhionl ,",ore better you take one Buffalo , '
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ma
without the
,
hada.
of
an
expre,.lon on bil face.- then
you could lee the idea ttealing upon hit cemprebandon and oyer hil
tea.-
turel, 'UIlUl , finally,
he
a1a;lly eaid With
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trlunphant air,
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Can."
'
lhen .e ttarted
till
hour
later there ...al a buffalo in a boat of his
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happy as a lord, a:ld every evenirg he had hil bath,.. regularly al .e did.
I ahG\lld
explain that the buffalo used in old
UIlIU
to furnith all the
milk
'
lfe
haJ.
in Shanghai .
Thele trip' were IL tOl.U'ce of great pleature . They made a most
grateful change in the
monot~
of Shanghai life, and we ewen used to come
up
from Hong-Kon,g to enJo1 them. I did not bave as many of them ILl thole
...
ho lived in Sn·n,gbai, but thOle 1 did have left a vivid 1.mpre6lion upon
I1l¥
mind. One. in particular, I remember . 1
8
ill
not lNl'e
it
wal not the
-
buffalo trip . ' 1I'e went in
the
first place to the htlls,
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"
hump:a~
.
ere affectionately called by
the
residente, and thence to the
great city of Hall,gcho... , onll of the ancient capitals of China.
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had
been .aid that
it ..
at un.ate for foreigntrl to venture there , and that
it
had
never been done except in dlagu.1u, but we pllued through thfl city.
in d1ffenmt directions, in open
chain,
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were enormOllS crowds and gre..t curiosity b'ut no disrespect- Indeed, I have
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