Show so IN cana iio attended aan oriental great universal iu this kite flying which is the of suddenly on country ceases the first corean month and tho next day stone fights take its place as the chief amusement in the eastern part public of seoul the capital there are large that have not been built spaces open and hero occur the most serious apon one section of and interesting fights the city is pitted against another but any one can take a hand on either side there are no recognized at pleasure leaders but the mass of fighters readily follows the lead of any one who shows himself to be a little more than the rest two mobs consisting of fifty seventy or a hundred men each are drawn up against each other with an interval of perhaps fifty yards between them there is an incessant shower of stones and each mans business is to hit as many and especially to avoid men as he can all the stones directed at him atom ten to twenty men on each ride are armed with stout clubs and wear thick wadded helm |