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 white silk, with birds and flowers painted on them.

"But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows; In florid beauty groves and fields appear: Man seems the only growth that dwindles here."

PARLOR OF CHINESE HOUSE.

In the cool of the evening the working classes gather in groups round the doors of their houses,