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Please read the Transcriber's Note at the end of this electronic text.

STRANGE STORIES
FROM A
CHINESE STUDIO.

TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED
BY
HERBERT A. GILES,
Of H.M.’s Consular Service.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
THOS. DE LA RUE & CO.
110, BUNHILL ROW.

1880.

PRINTED BY
THOMAS DE LA RUE AND CO., BUNHILL ROW,
LONDON.

TO MY WIFE AND OUR CHILDREN:
BERTRAM,
LIONEL,
VALENTINE,
LANCELOT.

CONTENTS.

Introduction. Vol. I., pp. xiii-xxxii. STORIES. Vol. I.
PAGE Vol. II.
PAGE Adulteration Punished — 332 Alchemist, The — 313 Boat-girl Bride, The — 149 Boatmen of Lao-lung, The — 348 Boon Companion, The 165 — Bribery and Corruption — 170 Buddhist Priest of Ch‘ang-ch‘ing, The 22 — Buddhist Priests, Arrival of — 231 Butterfly’s Revenge, The — 289 Carrying a Corpse — 181 Cattle Plague, The — 253 Censor in Purgatory, The — 238 Chang Pu-liang — 177 Chang’s Transformation 237 — Chou K‘o-ch‘ang and his Ghost — 106 Clay Image, The — 276 Cloth Merchant, The — 127 Collecting Subscriptions — 220 Considerate Husband, The 158 —

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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@43627@[email protected]#chapter-57" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Country of the Cave Men, The 397 — Courage Tested — 116 Cruelty Avenged — 267 Dead Priest, The — 247 Death by Laughing 352 — Disembodied Friend, The — 119 Dishonesty Punished — 279 Doctor, The — 290 Donkey’s Revenge, The — 64 Dr. Tsêng’s Dream 387 — Dreaming Honours — 327 Dutch Carpet, The — 179 Dwarf, A 224 — Earthquake, An — 263 Elephants and the Lion, The — 343 Engaged to a Nun 262 — Examination for the Post of Guardian Angel 1 — Faithful Dog, The — 261 Faithful Gander, The — 342 Faithless Widow, The — 39 Feasting the Ruler of Purgatory — 284 Fêng-shui — 322 Fight with the Foxes, The 251 — Fighting Cricket, The — 17 Fighting Quails, The 66 — Fisherman and his Friend, The — 197 Flood, A 350 — Flower-nymphs, The

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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@43627@[email protected]#Page_285" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">285 — Flying Cow, The — 249 Foot-ball on the Tung-t‘ing Lake 408 — Foreign Priests 343 — Fortune-hunter Punished, The — 272 Forty Strings of Cash, The — 211 Friendship with Foxes — 300 Gambler’s Talisman, The 419 — Grateful Dog, The — 308 Great Rat, The — 303 Great Test, The — 310 Hidden Treasure, The — 345 His Father’s Ghost — 142 Hsiang-ju’s Misfortunes 225 — Husband Punished, The 422 — Incorrupt Official, The — 358 Infernal Regions, In the — 95 Ingratitude Punished — 138 Injustice of Heaven, The — 111 Invisible Priest, The — 235 Jen Hsiu, The Gambler 196 — Joining the Immortals 53 — Jonah, A Chinese — 176 Judge Lu 92 — Justice for Rebels — 184 Killing a Serpent — 190 King, The 257 — Life Prolonged — 273

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class="left">Lingering Death, The — 325 Little Chu 143 — Lo-ch‘a Country and the Sea Market, The — 1 Lost Brother, The 203 — Mad Priest, The — 282 Magic Mirror, The — 114 Magic Path, The — 36 Magic Sword, The 124 — Magical Arts 47 — Magnanimous Girl, The 160 — Making Animals — 265 Man who was changed into a Crow, The 278 — Man who was thrown down a Well, The 365 — Marriage Lottery, The 428 — Marriage of the Fox’s Daughter, The 26 — Marriage of the Virgin Goddess, The — 257 Master-thief, The 347 — Metempsychosis — 207 “Mirror and Listen” Trick, The — 251 Miss Chiao-no 33 — Miss Lien-hsiang, The Fox-girl 168 — Miss Quarta Hu 152 — Miss Ying-ning; or, the Laughing Girl 106 — Mr. Tung; or, Virtue Rewarded — 244

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class="pgexternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Mr. Willow and the Locusts — 242 Mysterious Head, The — 135 Painted Skin, The 76 — Painted Wall, The 9 — Performing Mice, The 218 — Perseverance Rewarded 186 — Picture Horse, The — 286 Pious Surgeon, The — 351 Planchette — 295 Planting a Pear-tree 14 — Playing at Hanging 354 — Priest’s Warning, The — 205 Princess Lily, The — 56 Princess of the Tung-t‘ing Lake — 43 Quarrelsome Brothers, The 313 — Raising the Dead — 318 Rat Wife, The 355 — Resuscitated Corpse, The — 193 Rip van Winkle, A Chinese — 85 Roc, The — 340 Salt Smuggler, The — 215 Saving Life — 213 Sea-serpent, The — 113 Self-punished Murderer, The 345 — She-wolf and the Herd-boys, The — 330 Shui-mang Plant, The 136 — Singing Frogs, The

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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@43627@[email protected]#Page_217" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">217 — Singular case of Ophthalmia — 102 Singular Verdict — 307 Sisters, The 336 — Smelling Essays — 139 Snow in Summer — 294 Solomon, A Chinese — 335 Solomon, Another — 355 Spirit of the Hills, The — 137 Spirits of the Po-yang Lake, The — 109 Spiritualistic Séances — 131 Stolen Eyes, The — 233 Strange Companion, A — 130 Stream of Cash, The — 110 Supernatural Wife, A — 166 Taking Revenge — 25 Talking Pupils, The 5 — Ta-nan in Search of his Father 296 — Taoist Devotee, A — 183 Taoist Miracles — 226 Taoist Priest, A 246 — Taoist Priest of Lao-shan, The 17 — Theft of the Peach — 186 Three Genii, The 214 — Three States of Existence, The — 90 Thunder God, The 413 — Tiger Guest, The 330 — Tiger of Chao-ch‘êng, The 219 —

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class="left">Tipsy Turtle, The — 28 Trader’s Son, The 85 — Two Brides, The — 158 Unjust Sentence, The — 80 Virtuous Daughter-in-law, The 374 — Wei-ch‘i Devil, The — 268 Wine Insect, The — 259 Wolf Dream, The — 73 Wolves — 305 Wonderful Stone, The 306 — Young Gentleman who couldn’t spell, The 326 — Young Lady of the Tung-t‘ing Lake, The 271 — Appendix A „ B — 361 — 389

STRANGE STORIES FROM A CHINESE STUDIO.

CONTENTS.

STRANGE STORIES
FROM A
CHINESE STUDIO.