This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... A scholar without going outside his door know* everything under heaven. eatable of the district; melons and onions of the most delicious flavor and in great quantity claim favorable notice. We have been interested to notice with what reverence bread is picked up if by chance or design we dropped even crumbs. On not a few occasions have we purposely thrown away the outer skin of the little round steamed loaves, and every time would promptly come some man or child to carefully gather up the crumbs that none be lost. . . . The fragments were sacred, and we remembered the words of the Greatest Master, "gather up the fragments that none be lost." We emptied cake bits and hard crumbs out of our hunting coat pockets for the sole purpose of cleaning the cloth, but a full-grown man, well dressed and polite, picked up the bits one by one! Bread seems almost as precious to a Chinese as printed paper, and what more can we say? Since leaving the Yellow River at the Shansi line, we have followed the Long Wall, at a high altitude; Suchow, where we now are, is at a great height. The city is famous for the jade articles produced; four thousand families populate the last city along the Great Wall and certain families claim an hereditary right to work in jade. We made some inquiries about jade and purchased certain articles creditably wrought, but our chief interest still lay in the Long Wall. This whole region, as one would expect, is rife with legends about the work of Chin. And when John Gwadey, Esq., turned up with the tale of a wonderful dog of Chin, we were ready to attend. The valuable canine seems to have possessed, in addition to dog sense, some human sense, with the further adornment of sense not found in humans. To quote Gwadey: "Chin, the First...