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he ^mr op. "I ahoold like/* replied tiie boj, *Ho ride vpon 1 gale and break op the wares on dMaat •eaa.'* ^Yoa will bn op the hmilj" meered his oncle, *H£ yoa do not soeeeed in jc official career/' Appointed Goremor of Yfi-choo, he complained H soch a limited jorifldiction gare him no aeope for his abQiij. 1 sobseqaently roee to high military command, mnd led an expeditii into Cochin China. The king of that ooontrj made inunenae efin to resist him, and employed elephants with hoosinga, to the gra dismay of his troops. Thereopon Tsong ChSo prepared a nomh of imitation lions, which terrified the el^hants and gare him i easy rictory. Enormoos spoils of gold and jewels were taken, i which Tsnng appropriated not so moch as *^an aotomn spikdet He conducted several other campaigns, ontil in 460 he broke hi leg out banting. Ennobled as Marqois, and canonised as j^.

2051 Tsung Ping ^^ (T. ^^). A.D. 375-443. A natire o Nan-yang in Honan, who was most carefblly brooght op by hii mother and graduated as hsiu ts^ai^ hot who firmly refoaed mao] offers of official employment. He spent his time wandering about playing on the guitar and enjoying fine scenery, often forgettinf to return home. In this he was seconded by his wife, who wai also of a very romantic temperament. He lired for some time ii a hut upon Mt. H§ng in Hunan; but when he began to grof old he returned to civilisation, saying, '^I can no longer see th< hills; I must visit them in imagination from my conch." His hoiw was bung with paintings by himself of numerous fiivourite hanata

2052 Tsung Shih-lin ^ jti: ;|){(. 2nd and 3rd cent A.D. A contemporar of the great Ts^ao Ts^ao, for whose unscrupnlousness he conceivei an abiding hatred, and with whom he steadily refused to be oi terms of intimacy. When Ts^ao Ts'ao rose to be Minister of State he approached Tsung Shih-lin with the remark that possibly noi he would no longer decline to be friends. But the latter merelj