A Faithful Shepherdess

Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born […]

An outbreak of viral hepatitis occurred in Duolu Township, Luopu County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, between August 1986 and May 1987.

It was easy to see that it was an avoided house—a house that was shunned by the village, to which my eye was guided by a church spire some half a mile off—a house that nobody would take. And the natural inference was, that it had the reputation of being a haunted house.