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 lantern will reflect light enough to illuminate the whole universe."

Turning to the next page we found a priest sitting in front of the temple in the act of beating his wooden drum, while the poet exclaims:

The child next directed our attention to various kinds of flowers, more especially the marigold. A man in a boat rows with one hand while he points backward to the blossoming marigold, while in another picture the poet tells us that,

"What is that?" I asked as he turned to a picture of an old man riding on a cow.

"That is Laotze the founder of Taoism, crossing the frontier at the Han Ku Pass between Shansi and Shensi, riding upon a cow. Nobody knows where he went."

There were other pictures of

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