Certaine it is, shee was a busie negotiating woman.

Turn up the radio and sing along.

I remember seeing old ladies with incredible bowlegs caused by rickets. Unkind folks would remark ‘They couldn't stop a pig in a passage’.

The smallest incidents were to serve as pretexts for demonstrations of force and for demands for indemnities and reparations which increased China's subjection. For example, in 1876 China was constrained to sign the Conventions of Chih-fu (near Yen-tʻai, in north-eastern Shantung) with Great Britain after the murder of an English interpreter on the borders of Yunnan and Burma; the result was five new 'open ports' on top of the fifteen or so already existing.