Waiting for kettle to boil … So I Kondoed my recipe books

all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature.

Late on this same day the trail crossed a bare, rocky hillside, at one point passing between masses of stone ruins; something like a tower to the right, and on the left a sort of walled enclosure. I had lingered behind to gather a nosegay of the small blue flowers that marked the day's march.

Both Taiming and Taiqing were born in Zhicheng, about 10 kilometers from Yanmen.… After Japan surrendered, he returned to his hometown, Zhicheng.… The train got us as far as Zhicheng. There a big group of relatives awaited us at the station.…It was a distance of about a dozen kilometers from Zhicheng to Yanmen. A two-wheel pushcart was prepared for my parents and our luggage.