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 ¥<h%% T <h%% i <%%A    <$‘<% iOfYgf€3fll‘lb<§¤€6t ;*·*—-—i11illthesetic0utin4 T Y   %<<;;   E %<%<§%< 5 <¢%<     sellings, repeated. times without number, I have Q <‘%j i<V`< by T neverseen the ruler show his teeth in a smile :—-——·by gi what counsels have you made him so pleased to—day?’ do ulY» Hsu Wu—kwei replied, ‘ Ionly told him how I judged of dogs and horses by looking at their appearance} ~ fSo?’ said Ni1Shang,and the other rejoined, ‘Have you not heard of the wanderer I from Yueh ? when W if he had been gone from the state several days, he  ` was glad when he saw any one whom he had seen W in it; when he had been gone amonth, he was glad ii when he saw any one whom he had known in it; Y T  and when he had been gone a round year, he was glad when he saw any one who looked like a native j Y of it., The longer hewas gone, the more longingly did hethink of the people ;—-——was it not so? The “ i W men who withdraw to empty valleys, where the V hellebore bushes stop up the little paths made by the weasels, as they push their way or stand amid i  the waste, are glad when they seem to hear the ji i sounds of human footsteps; and how much more would they be so, if it were their brothers and r relatives talking and laughing by their side! How T it long it is since the words of a True 2 man were V, heard as he talked and laughed by our ruler’s side I' W 2. At (another) interview of Hsu W0·kwei with the marquis Wu, the latter said, ‘ You, Sir, have “ been dwelling in the forests for a long time, living W containing liegisters of the Population, the latter treating of mili- tary subjects. i s » 1 Kwo Hsiang makes this ‘a banished criminal} This is not DCCESSBIY. — “ Wu-kwei then had a high opinion of his own attainments in r Taoism, and a low opinion of Nii Shang and the other courtiers.