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 Water carrying fellow ― hear what I say ― on the bank of the south river ― is your hole ― when the weather is fine, you dry out your shell ― and when it is bad weather then you draw in your neck.

沙土地兒 sha$1$ t'u$3$ ti$4$'r, a sandy plain ground as outside the wall between the Manchu and the Chinese town in Peking. 丈人 chang$4$-jen, name given to one's wife or bride's father. 大舅兒 ta$4$-chiou$4$'r, one's wife's elder brother. 小舅兒 hsiao'$3$ chiou$4$'r, one's wife's younger brother. For 他 is here to be understood the bride whom the young man succeeds in spying through the curtain. 銀盤大