The methods of writing in the Far East, being pictorial and inexact, require scrutiny of the context before a given sentence can be correctly interpreted.
The little man made no trouble about it, however.
"They are old chalacters," he said.

"In Japan we joke a lot.

Evely sign has sevelal meanings.

This can be lead two ways.

It is a plovelb, and says, 'A new field gives a small clop,' or 'Human life is but fifty years.' Where did you see it ?" "On the blade of the Ko-Katana that killed Sir Alan Hume-Frazer," answered Brett.
And now he experienced a fresh difficulty.