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One sunny morn a Mr. Chuang Was strolling leisurely along; Viewing the budding flowers and trees— Sniffing the fragrance-laden breeze— Staring at those who hurried by, Each loaded with a good supply Of imitation sycee shoes, To burn—for friends defunct to use— Of dainty viands, oil, and rice, And wine to pour in sacrifice, On tombs of friends who 'neath them slept.

The next minute he had gone, taken a horse from a sycee, and in spite of the heat, cantered off to meet the party with the elephant, the air being that clear that I could see him go right up, turn his horse round, and ride gently back by the elephant’s side.

And whenever Hersey needs an idea and can't find one�it happens all the time�he uses a big word instead: cangue, coffle, fulvous, hame, jingal, liripipe, m�tayer, panyar, purlin, psora, shroff, sycee.*

Accordingly the Emperor, in pursuance of several memorials on the subject, forbad the export of sycee, at the same time that he took more energetic measures to put a stop to the traffic which was chiefly responsible for this loss of bullion.

In the next page we are shown the mode in which banking was carried on in country towns by persons who had the daughters of lords visiting them—who have gone abroad for their health, and left then such uncountable heaps of sycee silver.