Nathan siti; un epico di Est . Il nostro era vicino al tramonto e un po' di band ofscholarly cercando colleghi aveva appena smesso di inil porta; alla ricerca scientifica, sì, tutti tranne uno; hewas evidentemente uno straniero e indossava un cappotto outlandishshort. Ancora, egli aveva un aspetto gentilmente nel suo blueeyes, e ha parlato il discorso comune! Così themen battere off l'abbaiare i cani, le donne calmedtheir pianti di neonati e gli stranieri erano in-vited per venire in essere seduto e bere il tè. Essi erano fieri clan, Wongs l. Betweenthem e il Lau clan della stessa città di Sesto-nave villaggio, ci è sempre stata rivalità e alcune volte feudo.

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Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . our was near sunset, and a little band ofscholarly looking gentlemen had just stopped atthe door; scholarly looking, yes, all but one; hewas evidently a foreigner and wore an outlandishshort coat. Still, he had a kindly look in his blueeyes, and he spoke the common speech! So themen beat off the barking dogs, the women calmedtheir crying babies, and the strangers were in-vited to come in, be seated and drink tea. They were a proud clan, the Wongs. Betweenthem and the Lau clan of the same Sixth Town-ship village, there was always rivalry and some-times feud. Their castle was a great caravansary, a series of large houses, in fact, with narrow opencourts between, the whole enclosed within highmud walls. There they lived, three or four hun-dred of them, patriarchs, infants and all degreesof cousins, shut in from robbers and, seemingly, also from heavenly love. Now they crowded around, young men andmatrons and children, and plied the blue-eyed, brown-haired stranger with questions, just to 48. EECONNOITEING 49 hear him use their lingo. He, on his part, enteredcheerily into the spirit of the play and, makingthe chief of the clan sit down beside him, wassoon on the footing of a familiar friend. Thoughthere was no preaching, it soon came out thatthese visitors were bearers of good doctrine.Their doctrine might be heard of later; enoughnow that they were men of friendly spirit andculture. Here, Lead-a-little-brother, calls the oldman to a boy, tell your mother to prepare theguest room. These teachers must lodge here forthe night. •-&•? The district city of Clearwater was across theriver from Oxvale and thirty miles above. Itis the first burg with walls one comes to in goingup the river from Foochow. It seemed to the pioneers a challenge to con-quest, like the fenced cities of Canaan to Joshua.Like priests and Levites at Jericho, this littleband of preachers had made the circuit of thecity more than once, not however outside the wallbut on

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
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• bookyear1912