Kai Lung's Golden Hours

by Ernest Bramah

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KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN HOURS

 

 

KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN
HOURS

 

BY
ERNEST BRAMAH

AUTHOR OF
"THE WALLET OF KAI LUNG"

WITH A PREFACE BY
HILAIRE BELLOC

LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS LTD.
ST MARTIN'S STREET MDCCCCXXII

 

 

First printed . . October 1922
Reprinted . . December 1922

 

Printed in Great Britain by the Riverside Press Limited
Edinburgh

 

CONTENTS

		PAGE
PREFACE BY HILAIRE BELLOC		1
CHAPTER
I.	THE ENCOUNTERING OF SIX WITHIN A WOOD	9
II.	THE INEXORABLE JUSTICE OF THE MANDARIN SHAN TIEN	19
	THE STORY OF WONG TS'IN AND THE WILLOW PLATE EMBELLISHMENT	26
III.	THE DEGRADED PERSISTENCE OF THE EFFETE MING-SHU	48
	THE STORY OF NING, THE CAPTIVE GOD, AND THE DREAMS THAT MARK HIS RACE	53
IV.	THE INOPPORTUNE BEHAVIOUR OF THE COVETOUS LI-LOE	83
	THE STORY OF WONG PAO AND THE MINSTREL	85
V.	THE TIMELY INTERVENTION OF THE MANDARIN SHAN TIEN'S LUCKY DAY	94
	THE STORY OF LAO TING AND THE LUMINOUS INSECT	98
VI.	THE HIGH-MINDED STRATEGY OF THE AMIABLE HWA-MEI	118
	THE STORY OF WENG CHO; OR, THE ONE DEVOID OF NAME	123
VII.	NOT CONCERNED WITH ANY PARTICULAR ATTRIBUTE OF THOSE WHO ARE INVOLVED	140
	THE STORY OF WANG-HO AND THE BURIAL ROBE	144
VIII.	THE TIMELY DISPUTATION AMONG THOSE OF AN INNER CHAMBER OF YU-PING	164
	THE STORY OF CHANG TAO, MELODIOUS VISION AND THE DRAGON	168
IX.	THE PROPITIOUS DISSENSION BETWEEN TWO WHOSE GENERAL ATTRIBUTES HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUFFICIENTLY DESCRIBED	199
	THE STORY OF YUEN YAN, OF THE BARBER CHOU-HU, AND OF HIS WIFE TSAE-CHE	203
X.	THE INCREDIBLE OBTUSENESS OF THOSE WHO HAD OPPOSED THE VIRTUOUS KAI LUNG	232
	THE STORY OF HIEN AND THE CHIEF EXAMINER	237
XI.	OF WHICH IT IS WRITTEN: "IN SHALLOW WATER DRAGONS BECOME THE LAUGHING-STOCK OF SHRIMPS"	268
XII.	THE OUT-PASSING INTO A STATE OF ASSURED FELICITY OF THE MUCH-ENDURING TWO WITH WHOM THESE PRINTED LEAVES HAVE CHIEFLY BEEN CONCERNED	276
	THE STORY OF THE LOYALTY OF TEN-TEH, THE FISHERMAN	277

 

KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN HOURS