Entering the place of commerce of the
one who seemed the most favourable for the purpose, he placed the
facts as they would in future be represented before him, explained the
undoubtedly remunerative fame that would ensue to all concerned in the
enterprise of sending forth the printed books in their new form, and,
opening at a venture the written leaves which he had brought with him,
read out the following words as an indication of the similarity of the
entire work:
"'/Whai-Keng/. Friends, Chinamen, labourers who are engaged in
agricultural pursuits, entrust to this person your acute and
well-educated ears;
"'He has merely come to assist in depositing the body of Ko'ung in
the Family Temple, not for the purpose of making remarks about him
of a graceful and highly complimentary nature;
"'The unremunerative actions of which persons may have been guilty
possess an exceedingly undesirable amount of endurance;
"'The successful and well-considered almost invariably are
involved in a directly contrary course;
"'This person desires nothing more than a like fate to await
Ko'ung.'
"When this one had read so far, he paused in order to give the other
an opportunity of breaking in and offering half his possessions to be
allowed to share in the undertaking.
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