A cow was killed near the south gate on whose intestine--and this fact can be attested by all who saw it--was written plainly and unmistakably the character "_Wong_," which proved, they told me, that the soul of one whose name was Wong had returned to earth in the body of that cow.
I stayed two days in Chaotong, and strolled in pleasant company through the city.

Close to the Mission is the yamen of the Chentai or Brigadier-General, the Military Governor of this portion of the province, and a little further is the more crowded yamen of the Fu Magistrate.

Here, as in all yamens, the detached wall or fixed screen of stone facing the entrance is painted with the gigantic representation of a mythical monster in red trying to swallow the sun--the Chinese illustration of the French saying "_prendre la lune avec les dents_." It is the warning against covetousness, the exhortation against squeezing, and is as little likely to be attended to by the magistrate here as it would be by his brother in Chicago.

We visited the Confucian Temple among the trees and the examination hall close by, and another yamen, and the Temple of the God of Riches.

In the yamen, at the time of our visit, a young official, seated in his four-bearer chair, was waiting in the outer court; he had sent in his visiting card, and attended the pleasure of his superior officer.