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YANG FOO issued orders to his family.
-"My wife, you will busy yourself with the evening food, as is your duty. The two boys will fetch the water-buffalo to her new pasture, driving in the stake for her rope very firmly indeed, for to-day she is restive with the spring fever of animals, and desires to leave us. The girl children will now fetch my nets, which have been mended, I hope, and bear them to the boat. There, that is all, I think. There is a sufficiency of time for a few breaths of leisure ere I start."