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 蚊子 uen2 tzu, the mosquito. 虼蚤 ko4 tsao3, the flea. 蒼蠅 ts'ang1 ying2, the fly.

The purse, the purse ― I am now a relation of the purse family ― but their daughter has grown dangerously sick ― and they have called a physician who has felt her pulse ― and then, has written a prescription, and people have gone to buy the medicines ― on the prescription there is written: mosquito's livers, flea's hearts and half a pound of flies wings.

These words are addressed to a young girl, as