. A'Chu and other stories. OUR FIRST HAKKA STUDENTS These are the boys who cleaned up the haunted house. him carefully — a tiny red speck on the forehead —another — two others — more on the chest. Next dayhe knew certainly that it was smallpox. Soon afterward the student who had assisted in clear-ing away rubbish from the ladys chamber was taken The Haunted House 307 ill. After him still another student came down withsmallpox. Now we knew what it was that haunted the big was not the evil spirits to which the Chinese hadcharged the misfortunes of its unhappy dwellers. Itwas rather the
. A'Chu and other stories. OUR FIRST HAKKA STUDENTS These are the boys who cleaned up the haunted house. him carefully — a tiny red speck on the forehead —another — two others — more on the chest. Next dayhe knew certainly that it was smallpox. Soon afterward the student who had assisted in clear-ing away rubbish from the ladys chamber was taken The Haunted House 307 ill. After him still another student came down withsmallpox. Now we knew what it was that haunted the big was not the evil spirits to which the Chinese hadcharged the misfortunes of its unhappy dwellers. Itwas rather the minute germs of a terrible disease, se-creted in the dust and clinging to cobwebs, that hadworked the mischief. Quite certainly, after the treat-ment it had undergone, the house would be haunted nomore. The missionary got well, and so also did hisstudents. But he will always bear some of the pittedscars received in this encounter with enemies in ahaunted NATIVE EVANGELISTS
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