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1705035500 I found him there. When I had made my selection and my bargain, over a cup of tea, I asked why he had left the Big Horse Road. He replied that it was not a good location.
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1705035502 “It is such a prominent place,” I said in astonishment.“Didn’t you find that you had more customers there than here?”
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1705035504 “A merchant,” he informed me, “lives the major part of his life with his customers. The place was too prominent. Many came in just because it was convenient. They had long purses and they paid, but money is not everything.”
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1705035506 The merchant’s son, a boy of fourteen and heir to the business, further enlightened me. “This place is better for the future of our house,” he said. “On the Big Horse Road there was one who came who let the breath of February blow in on a flowering plum tree which we had set on the counter for the delight of gentlefolk.”
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1705035508 VII
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1705035510 I had lost my way and I had need to ask a policeman for direction. I drew my car up to the curb and waited. The policeman was occupied. Dressed in the splendid uniform copied from the city of San Francisco in which the American-educated governor of the town had clad all his republican police, this one was busy. Using his teapot as a watering can, he was watering the phlox which he had placed around his stance on the modern concrete road.
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1705035512 When he had finished, he gave me the information I requested. But before he signaled the permission for me to move on into the traffic he made a statement and asked a question: “There is no day in the year when flowers fail to bless China with their lovely charm,” and, “Is this also so in the Outer World?”
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1705035514 Notes
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1705035516 all peoples, all races or nations; the persons who make up all the different races or nations of the world.
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1705035518 Hopei province,河北省.
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1705035520 in their season, at the proper time; at the time when rain should have fallen.
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1705035522 parched, dried and shiveled up.
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1705035524 beige, natutral brown color.
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1705035526 artificially irrigated plots, small areas of ground which the farmers had watered or irrigated with water drawn from wells, hence by artificial and not natural means.
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1705035528 hamlets, small groups of cottages in the country.
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1705035530 ledge, narrow horizontal surface projecting from a wall or cliff or other vertical surface.
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1705035532 pack coolies, burden carriers who pack or carry the bundles on their backs.
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1705035534 inland produce, agricultural or natural products from the interior of our country.
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1705035536 foreign export, sending out to foreign countries.
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1705035538 containers, baskets or bags holding or containing the produce that were carrying.
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1705035540 foremost man, the leader; the carrier who led the procession.
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1705035542 swerved, turned aside.
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1705035544 squatted, seated himself on the ground with his knees drawn up and his heels close to or touching his hams, the back part of his thighs.
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1705035546 canteen, a small vessel or flask used by soldiers or travelers for carrying water.
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1705035548 crevice, a narrow opening or crack resulting from a split or crack in the stone paving.
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