It would do no good to spit fire at him. He'd only laugh, and then he'd get his own way anyway.

On January 11, 1851, “the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’’ was proclaimed in Chintien village in Kweiping county in Kwangsi. The official ideology was Christian. This was the greatest uprising in China since the fall of the Ming dynasty.

Let them cook, semicovered, for 5 minutes, then uncovered for a couple minutes more, until nicely browned.

Rising and cawing at the gun's report.