It seems that at family prayers at this good missionary's, the chapter for reading was given out when poor Lenz was discovered feverishly seeking the Epistle to the Galatians in the Old Testament.
When his mistake was gently pointed out to him he was not discouraged, far from it; it was the missionary who was dismayed to hear that in the United States this particular Epistle is always reckoned a part of the Pentateuch.
I paid an early visit of courtesy to my nominal host, Li Pi Chang, the Chinese manager of the Telegraphs.

He received me in his private office, gave me the best seat on the left, and handed me tea with his own fat hands.

A mandarin whose rank is above that of an expectant Taotai, Li is to be the next Taotai of Mungtze, where, from an official salary of 400 taels per annum, he hopes to save from 10,000 to 20,000 taels per annum.
"Squeezing," as this method of enrichment is termed, is, you see, not confined to America.

Few arts, indeed, seem to be more widely distributed than the art of squeezing.

"Dives, the tax-dodger," is as common in China as he is in the United States.