entire work:

"'/Whai-Keng/. Friends, Chinamen, labourers who are engaged in
agricultural pursuits, entrust to this person your acute and
well-educated ears;

"'He has merely come to assist in depositing the body of Ko'ung in
the Family Temple, not for the purpose of making remarks about him
of a graceful and highly complimentary nature;

"'The unremunerative actions of which persons may have been guilty
possess an exceedingly undesirable amount of endurance;

"'The successful and well-considered almost invariably are
involved in a directly contrary course;

"'This person desires nothing more than a like fate to await
Ko'ung.'

"When this one had read so far, he paused in order to give the other
an opportunity of breaking in and offering half his possessions to be
allowed to share in the undertaking. As he remained unaccountably
silent, however, an inelegant pause occurred which this person at
length broke by desiring an expressed opinion on the matter.

"'O exceedingly painstaking, but nevertheless highly inopportune Kai
Lung,' he replied at length, while in his countenance this person read
an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture, 'all your
entrancing efforts do undoubtedly appear to attract the undesirable
attention of some spiteful and tyrannical demon. This closely-written