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Excerpt from Jade: And Other Stories
At the Bridge of Late Snow he stopped for a moment listening to the evening bell of South Mountain. Presently he and his pine tree and his white pigeon were in Hangchow. He voyaged' the canal to Shanghai, earning his rice at the sweeps of an obstinate house boat whose reluctant hull came to rest near the goldsmith's shop beside the crooked' bridge that leads to the Mandarin's Tea House. At the bird market he sold the white pigeon for twelve cents. He gorged heartily on rice which he bought for half a cent and upon the gratify ing ¿esh of a pig which cost him two cents.
For a little while he lived peacefully, enjoying the beauty of the curves of his pine tree and then one day he found himself meshed in the net of de mand which the labour boss from one of the steam ers had cast into the China sea of human energy.
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