Thus, although this department was among the more volatile fluctuators between regular and cutback budgets, the overall effect on the department suggests that growth was nearly static.

The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.

In Hupei, at Wu-siu, about four hundred li from Hankow, salt wells are found. They are also found at Ying-chʻeng 應城, seventy or eighty miles north-west of Hankow. . . . Ying-chʻeng belongs to the prefecture of Tê-an-fu.

Soldiers were sitting at tables among these flowers, some playing cards, some singing songs to the sound of the gusla, but very softly because it was now evening, and it had been a holiday, and everyone was tired.