Well, one night we were rather hard up and we wanted a good feed, so five or six of us set out, along with a great stout fellow, and we actually stole a whole sheep that was hanging at a butcher's door, and the big chap swagged it home.

[…] 36) are good sports 37) have a good sense of humor 38) are not sissies 39) do not try to neck on the first date 40) are not routine petters […]

Their retreat to Ying-shang was part of a new plan to turn westward into Honan province along the route taken in February by Ch’en Te-ts’ai, who had tried to capture Hsin-ts’ai with the help of a local Nien force and afterward gone farther west past Ch’üeh-shan to lay siege to Nan-yang beginning March 10th.]

From within he took several sheets of paper tied together with a green treasury tag.