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PT. 111. SECT. IV.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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getting the (tax-) money from the people (soon), and I will then lend you three hundred ounces of silver ;—will that do ?' Kwang Kâu flushed with anger, and said, 'On the road yesterday, as I was coming here, I heard some one calling out. On looking round, I saw a goby in the carriage rut, and said to it, “Goby fish, what has brought you here?” The goby said, “I am Minister of Waves in the Eastern Sea. Have you, Sir, a gallon or a pint of water to keep me alive?" I replied, “ Yes, I am going south to see the kings of Wa and Yüeh, and I will then lead a stream from the Western Kiang to meet you ;-will that do ?” The goby flushed with anger, and said, “I have lost my proper element, and I can here do nothing for myself; but if I could get a gallon or a pint of water, I should keep alive. Than do what you propose, you had better soon look for me in a stall of dry fish.”'
3. A son of the duke of Zən?, having provided himself with a great hook, a powerful black line, and fifty steers to be used as bait, squatted down on (mount) Kwâi Khi, and threw the line into the Eastern Sea. Morning after morning he angled thus, and for a whole year caught nothing. At the end of that time, a great fish swallowed the bait, and dived down, dragging the great hook with him. Then it rose to the surface in a furry, and flapped with its fins, till the white waves rose like hills, and the waters were lashed into fury. The noise was like that of imps and spirits, and spread terror
" I suppose this was merely a district of Kha, and the duke of it merely the officer in charge of it ;-according to the practice of the rulers of Khů, after they usurped the title of King.
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