Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/6
Chapter VI.—Imperial Grief.(啟奏.)
A GENTLEMAN who had his hat torn to pieces by his wife, became very angry, and went to the palace to memorialize to the Throne. "Your minister's wife's temper is quite furious. Because I had a quarrel with her, she tore my silk hat to pieces. Pray, Your Majesty, have her punished." The Emperor immediately gave him a verbal reply: "My subject, you should hold your temper a little. You do not know that the Empress also has a little temper. Yesterday, because there was one word in which she disagreed with me, she tore my crown to pieces, and I did not dare to be angry. While yours, only a silk hat, of what value is it?"