. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. m ^[M^^^. Chinese Gentlemen with favourite Birds. for though a Chinamans skull is abnormally thick, andthe sun, which would strike an Englishman dead fromheat apoplexy, flames in vain on a Chinese husband-mans cranium, yet they prefer to be cool; and everyone is fanning himself Young exquisites, some of thestudents perhaps already assembling for the summers 48 An Inland City. special reading with private tutors in these historic andliterary shades, stare at us with mingled curiosity andaffected contempt. Some of the
. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. m ^[M^^^. Chinese Gentlemen with favourite Birds. for though a Chinamans skull is abnormally thick, andthe sun, which would strike an Englishman dead fromheat apoplexy, flames in vain on a Chinese husband-mans cranium, yet they prefer to be cool; and everyone is fanning himself Young exquisites, some of thestudents perhaps already assembling for the summers 48 An Inland City. special reading with private tutors in these historic andliterary shades, stare at us with mingled curiosity andaffected contempt. Some of them near the city gateare carrying singing-birds in cages; a favourite amuse-ment for the dilettante gentry. They hold the cages atarms-length in the wind, or hang them on the lowboughs of a tree, and stand or sit smoking and listeningto the cheerful and melodious notes of the yellow eye-brow, a loud-voiced thrush; and of the lark whichabounds on the flats of the Tsien-tang. Buddhist priestsgo by with shaven heads and unwashed vestments,bound for the famous monasteries beyond the head
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