“Fiam, keep still; you are not used to wine. Don’t you see that if I were really your enemy I should light you, and burn you to the tips of your toes? I think I will now smoke a cigarette....”

These words quieted him, and in a little while I put him in his box and placed that in my pocket.

A Curious Costume

CHAPTER XI A CURIOUS COSTUME

The day after that we arrived in China.

Far out at sea we spied the land—all green hills with pagodas everywhere.