I am just talking to relieve myself, John. I know better than to fratch with anyone—at least I think I do.

This version shows a small figure inside of cagelike towers, perhaps symbolizing the fledgling sculptor's dreams of creation.

Needless to say such improbable calumnies will not pass unnoticed by Messrs Sue, Grabbitt and Runne, who have been instructed to use the limits of the law to bring to heel the rumour-mongers and muck-rakers.

Now the group of forty graduates were put to work as a partial solution to the shortage,¹³ and he went ahead with the establishment of a surveying bureau at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u, where the Grand Canal crosses the former course of the Yellow River.