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Pan Demos, v. 1, issue 2, March 1949
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Lu, of Ho-pei. If you do not forget the present time, meet me there in fifteen years from now, on the sixteenth of the eighth moon." "Alas!" cried Chang, "I am already over thirty, and in fifteen years more I shall be drawing near the wood. (Note: A very ancient expression signifying 'the grave', the word 'wood' being used by synecdoche for 'coffin'.) What good will our meeting do?" "I can be your servant," replied Miss Tseng, "and so make some return to you. But come, escort me a few miles on my way; the road is beset with brambles, and I shall have some trouble with my dress." So Chang carried her as before, until they reached a high road, where they found a number of carriages and horses, the latter with one or two riders on the backs of each, and three or four, or even more persons, in every carriage. But there was one richly decorated carriage, with embroidered curtains and red awnings, in which sat only one old woman, who, when she saw Miss Tseng, called out, "Ah, there you are." "Here I am," replied Miss Tseng, and then she turned to Chang and said, "We must part here, do not forget what I told you." Chang promised her would remember, and then the old woman helped her up into the carriage, round went the wheels, off went the attendants, and they were gone. Sorrowfully Chang wended his way home, and there wrote upon the wall the date mentioned by Miss Tseng; after which, bethinking himself of the efficacy of prayer, he took to reciting sutras more energetically than ever. By-and-by he dreamed that an angel appeared to him, and said, "The bent of your mind is excellent, indeed, but you must visit the Southern Sea." (Note: The supposed residence of Kuan-yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.) Asking how far off the Southern Sea was, the angel informed him that it was close by; and then waking up, and understanding what was required of him, he fixed his sole thoughts on Buddha, and lived a purer life than before. In three years' time his two sons, Ming and Cheng, came out very high on the list at the examination for the second degree, in spite of which worldly 22
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Lu, of Ho-pei. If you do not forget the present time, meet me there in fifteen years from now, on the sixteenth of the eighth moon." "Alas!" cried Chang, "I am already over thirty, and in fifteen years more I shall be drawing near the wood. (Note: A very ancient expression signifying 'the grave', the word 'wood' being used by synecdoche for 'coffin'.) What good will our meeting do?" "I can be your servant," replied Miss Tseng, "and so make some return to you. But come, escort me a few miles on my way; the road is beset with brambles, and I shall have some trouble with my dress." So Chang carried her as before, until they reached a high road, where they found a number of carriages and horses, the latter with one or two riders on the backs of each, and three or four, or even more persons, in every carriage. But there was one richly decorated carriage, with embroidered curtains and red awnings, in which sat only one old woman, who, when she saw Miss Tseng, called out, "Ah, there you are." "Here I am," replied Miss Tseng, and then she turned to Chang and said, "We must part here, do not forget what I told you." Chang promised her would remember, and then the old woman helped her up into the carriage, round went the wheels, off went the attendants, and they were gone. Sorrowfully Chang wended his way home, and there wrote upon the wall the date mentioned by Miss Tseng; after which, bethinking himself of the efficacy of prayer, he took to reciting sutras more energetically than ever. By-and-by he dreamed that an angel appeared to him, and said, "The bent of your mind is excellent, indeed, but you must visit the Southern Sea." (Note: The supposed residence of Kuan-yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.) Asking how far off the Southern Sea was, the angel informed him that it was close by; and then waking up, and understanding what was required of him, he fixed his sole thoughts on Buddha, and lived a purer life than before. In three years' time his two sons, Ming and Cheng, came out very high on the list at the examination for the second degree, in spite of which worldly 22
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