The Middle Kingdom : a survey of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts, and history of the Chinese empire and its inhabitants (1907)
Williams, S. Wells (Samuel Wells), 1812-1884 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 75
58 THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. dinner, threw the water on the fire, picked out the coals and put them back into the basket, threw away the ashes, set the anvil astride of the bellows, and laying the fire-pan on the basket, slung the bellows on one end of his pole and the basket on the other, and walked… … Itinerant Dish-mender. places it on a tile covered with wet felt. He then pours the liquid iron, fused in a crucible by the assistance of a flux, upon the hole, and immediately patters it down with a dossil of felt until it covers the edges of the pan above and below, and is then, while cooling,…
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