. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. yelashes, eyebrows, and nose, and concluding byadministering sundry thumps on the back and cracking his joints; when allis terminated, the barber receives five cash (about one American cent),carefully collects the hair in a small tub (which he afterward sells to themanure gatherers), and walks to another part of the town, hoping his ser-vices may again be speedily called into requisition. Hard by is a venderof cooked food, with an enormous reed umbrella fixed firmly in the ground,under th
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. yelashes, eyebrows, and nose, and concluding byadministering sundry thumps on the back and cracking his joints; when allis terminated, the barber receives five cash (about one American cent),carefully collects the hair in a small tub (which he afterward sells to themanure gatherers), and walks to another part of the town, hoping his ser-vices may again be speedily called into requisition. Hard by is a venderof cooked food, with an enormous reed umbrella fixed firmly in the ground,under the shade of which he dispenses to his hungry customers, in smallbowls or basins, rice, fat pork, and stews, swimming in oil, and theseepicures devour the savory mess with extreme gusto; beside this trader isseated a brother itinerant who vends samshoo, sweetmeats, and cakes; alittle farther on stands a bookseller and circulating librarian, exposing hislibrary for sale, or hire, in two boxes, which he carries and hawks aboutfrom street to street. In his vicinity is a fortune-teller, who, having received. Chinese Fortune-Tejler. his fee, a quarter of a dollar, is unfolding the mysteries of the future to anattentive and anxious dupe; while not far off is a doctor, who, with a stringof human teeth suspended around his neck, and extending below his mid-dle, by way of ornament probably, is discoursing most eloquently uponthe efficacy of his drugs and nostrums, which are contained in a box attachedto his person. Then an aged woman may be seen, decently clad, with feetthree inches long, seated on a ratan stool, under an umbrella, mending oldclothes, putting a patch here, sewing a rent up there; while a passer-bywanting a button sewed on to his jacket, repairs to her, avails himself ofher services, and remunerates the seamstress with a cash. Not far distanta leprous beggar exhibits his disgusting sores, and rattles two pieces ofbamboo to attract attention ; jabbering supplicatory inv oca
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