[617] See No. LXI., [note 346].
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[618] See No. LXIV., [note 373].
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[619] Such is the officially authorised method of determining a doubtful relationship between a dead parent and a living child, substituting a bone for the clay image here mentioned.
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[620] “In various savage superstitions the minute resemblance of soul to body is forcibly stated.”—Myths and Myth-makers, by John Fiske, p. 228.
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[621] An important point in Chinese etiquette. It is not considered polite for a person in a sitting position to address an equal who is standing.
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[622] By becoming his son and behaving badly to him. See No. CX., [note 545], and the text to which it refers.
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[623] See No. CXXXI., [note 605].
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[624] The story is intended as a satire on those puffed-up dignitaries who cannot even go to a picnic without all the retinue belonging to their particular rank. See No. LVI., [note 315].
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[625] See No. XXIII., [note 152].
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[626] The examiner for the bachelor’s, or lowest, degree.
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