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Text extracted from opening pages of book: By the City of the Long Sand A Tale of New China By Mice Tisdale Hobart New York The Macmtllan Company 1) 2 6 All rights rutrvtd COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY THE E HOBART ANDREW M. MASSIE with love and gratitude, I dedicate this book. NOTE PERHAPS it is unnecessary to explain that although the facts in this book are true they have been built, in many cases, around imaginary people. Often the incidents, also true m themselves, have been trans posed from the place of their happening. This has been done that nothing in the book may seem personal to my friends of the East English, American, and Chinese with whom I have dwelt very happily for many years. Sketches by Lieutenant Commander Henry Kieffer Photographs by Mr. Asmus, Mr. Leitao, Miss Nourse, and Mr. JSobart CONTENTS PART I OUR ALIEN SURROUNDINGS. BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN CHAPTER PAGE I. A WINDOW WHICH GAVE ON THE CITY OP THE LONG SAND II II. AND THE CITIES ARE THE CHAIRS . . . 2. O III. THE MIRACLE OF NATIONALITY . . . . 2.4 IV. THOSE HIDDEN TOWNS OF OURS AND YOURS 2.8 V. THE COMPANY HOUSE 35 PART II IN RETROSPECT. MY PAST CYCLES OF HOME STEADING VI. THE HOUSE THAT WAS A STAGE ... 41 VII. WE GO TO LIVE IN A GODOWN 58 VIII. WE MOVE TO THE CAVE 67 IX. I CREATE MY BEAU BRUMMEL OF HOMES 75 X. THE HOUSE OF THE RAGGED MANTLE. . 80 PART III THIS THREE-YEAR CYCLE OF HOMESTEADING. WE BELONG AGAIN TO A COMMUNITY XI. WHEN WE COME TO THE CITY OF THE LONG SAND 87 x Contents CHAPTER PAGE XII. I DISCOVER THE PERSONALITY OF THE COMPANY HOUSE CJCJ XIII. HERE COME SERVANTS . 112. XIV. HERE COMES THE TOWN 1x3 XV. THE WORLD APPEARS 137 XVI. AND THE COMPANY . .144 XVII. AND HERE ARE LOVERS . 155 XVIII. TWOKINDS OF SOLITUDE . l68 XIX. ALL IN THE DAY* S WORK . iyZ XX. A BREAK IN OUR SOLIDARITY 1 87 XXI. A YANGTSE VALLEY SUMMER . . 104 XXII. ANOTHER BRIDE . . . .... XI 6 XXIII. THE MONTH OF WAR AND CHRYSANTHE MUMS. . XXIV. THE LINK BREAKS . . . PART IV THE LAST YEAR OF THIS CYCLE XXV. THE LAST YEAR BY THE CITY OF THE LONG SAND . - 2-59 XXVI. FLOOD . . 2.64 XXVII. HOLIDAYS 2.74 XXVIII. SHADOWS OF DISASTER 2.91 XXIX. CASTLES IN THE AIR . z 6 XXX. DISASTER . 303 XXXI. FAMINE. . . . . . XXXII. I BEQUEATH THE COMPANY HOUSE TO ANOTHER ILLUSTRATIONS FACING FACE Our men travel in primitive fashion by donkey or cart in the North, by junk in the South 2.2. You can picture our little Amencan towns of trade in the midst of scenes like this. . 31 From the red-gold grain giant stone men had stood forth 44 We go on fantastic wedding journeys to temples like this .... . .... 50 In summer and winter., the Pagoda of Six Harmonies guarded the House of the Ragged M. antle 8x It was my husband's work to ins feet these astute Chinese merchants When Hooked at my quiet garden it struck me as fantastic to be talking of bandits . . An age the steamer has forgotten an age of man propelled junks 140 The native women working at their silks knew also this clutch of fear 15 2. In the dim old streets with their open shop fronts The narrow streets were encroached upon by the encumbrances oj living xit Illustrations FACING The river separated us from the bandit-inclined PAGE army of Tsai 2.2.8 In September the chrysanthemums lined the walk. In June the river came swiftly sweeping ov
