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 "Nearly five," returned Liu Venti, himself stifling a sigh.

"Sometimes," said Pau Tsu, "I feel I cannot any longer bear their absence."

She drew from her bosom two little shoes, one red, one blue.

"Their first," said she. "Oh, my sons, my little sons!"

A messenger boy approached, handed Liu Venti a message, and slipped away.

Liu Venti read:

"The answer to our prayer," breathed Pau Tsu. "Oh Liu Venti, love is indeed stronger than hate!"  

ANY years ago in the beautiful land of China, there lived a rich and benevolent man named Chan Ah Sin. So kind of heart was he that he could not pass through a market street without buying up all the live fish, turtles, birds, and animals