Regulating it by means of a hidden spring, he requested her to follow closely the actions of a heavily-burdened passerby who was at that moment some little distance beyond them.

Scarcely had Lila raised the glass to her eyes than she became irresistibly amused to a most infectious degree, greatly to the satisfaction of Lee, who therein beheld the realization of his hopes.
Not for the briefest space of time would she permit the object to pass from her, but directed it at every person who came within her sight, with frequent and unfeigned exclamations of wonder and delight.
"'How pleasant and fascinating a device is this!' exclaimed Lila at length.

'By what means is so diverting and gravity-removing a result obtained ?' "'Further than that it is the concentration of much labour of continually trying with glasses and reflecting surfaces, this person is totally unable to explain it,' replied Lee.

'The chief thing, however, is that at whatever moving object it is directed--no matter whether a person so observed is being carried in a chair, riding upon an animal, or merely walking--at a certain point he has every appearance of being unexpectedly hurled to the ground in a most violent and mirth-provoking manner.

Would not the stout and round-faced one, who would cheerfully have contributed a certain number of taels to see this person manifest a similar exhibition, unhesitatingly lay out that sum to secure the means of so gratifying his emotions whenever he felt the desire, even with the revered persons of the most dignified ones in the Empire?
Is there, indeed, a single person between the Wall and the Bitter Waters on the South who is so devoid of ambition that he would miss the opportunity of subjecting, as it were, perhaps even the sacred Emperor himself to the exceptional feat ?' "'The temptation to possess one would inevitably prove overwhelming to any person of ordinary intelligence,' admitted Lila.