If you have a boil you will plaster the offending excrescence without avail, if that be _all_ you plaster; to get relief you must at the same time plaster the corresponding area on the image of the God.

Go into his temple in Western China, and you will find this deity dripping with plasters, with scarcely an undesecrated space on his superficies.
At the yamen of the Brigadier-General in Chaotong, the entrance is guarded by the customary stone images of mythical shape and grotesque features.

They are believed to represent lions, but their faces are not leonine--they are a reproduction, exaggerated, of the characteristic features of the bulldog of Western China.

The images are of undoubted value to the city.

One is male and the other female.