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the
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n
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af~ectin&
the business of the
hOUle, and I
hardly
knew ...
hat
to do. I did not like to give in to
them,
and yet , 1 did not
like
to 10Ie
m;;
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Ax>:!
idee oJ bad lu.ck attach–
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to a house in China
is
very unfortunate . One morning t:.e £1&11 devil
c.1sappeared ,
much
to
~
relier. I never knew ...hat
had
become of him, but
I ab'fl,yl aupposed
that
Field, or lome ODe in the hout!le, carried him back to
hie old niche in the temple .
A.t
e.n:t
rate, the llicknelll diaappeared with
him . There wu a dmllar instance at Canton 8W1le year. before. There
ha4.
been a greU d.eal of Gicknellil in Honam , on the opposite dde of the
river , The gilt arrow on the tlll& staff at the .beriean consulate had
been pointill& at Honam for two or three monthl ,
'1'
he
poor thing couldn't
do &ll¥thill& else, conllderino; that the wind
wu
louth . So one afternoon ,
the
I:1Ob determined to pull it down . and the foreigners were equally
de–
te~ned
they should not . With the assistance of a squad of coolie. from
the different hou.el, principally from
Ru..
ell
&
Co ., we succeeded in
lowering and runniIl&
it
into the
hOUM' ,
Ro., were being frequently got
~
on the ,Ughtnt pretext .
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the
river . It wa, when we lived in
the french FoOng. To go hOllle I had to paBl the entrance of Old China
Street, and I was told by the foreigners oolleeted in
the
garden thAt it
.
al not we to do 10 . I
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~
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Will
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