Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 168
hen the genius said that he should now receive the reward of his ruler, Hi Toexpected, at least, that he and the fair princess would be put into a flying chariot, andconveyed safe back to China. But no such notion crossed the mind of the genius, whouttcrino- some doggrel rhymes with an air as if he… … meaning of the order at once, though they might have felt some diflficidty in compliance.But that was not the case in the ancient days of the Chinese empire, and the puzzled Hi Towas just going to ask the genius to express his wishes more clearly, when he found all hisclothes pulled over his head,…
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