| Show CHINESE LOVE STORY fate of the hero and heroine and their tails it is a chinese love story I 1 am going to relate said the painter A chinese lov love story estory asked lucia do the chinese ever fall in love I incited they do re turned returned the painter look now at your plate your blue china plate there the story is told in a crude chinese fashion bill I 1 can interpret it for you I 1 think see sec in the right 0 hand corner of tile plate if 1 a group of blue islands with trees and pagodas pago daa all of the same azure color dotted over them while tall blue trees bend over the pagodas and the islands are separated one from the other by small blue straits over this island e empire in ir tile the great emperor rei reigned f I 1 7 P pelican 1 ican interrupted assunta owhy why that is the name of an ugly clumsy bird was I 1 assure you re turned the painter firmly the name of that emperor this palace built in the uie re nals sa sance ee was owing to the stormy reigns of the IS emperors merol p predecessors decidedly in need of repair why the china bells of the tallest pagoda had all fallen oft off into the w water tier the dilapidated lapi dated state of his pala palace ce occupied the emperors thoughts more than the beauty of his daughter the young young and lovely princess swen kiang kian oh what a f funny anny name for a princess exclaimed assunta swen kian kiang ft a M genuine antrine en trine chinese name si signorina e norin just as s genuine as her lovely love long pigtail which hung bung down to the very hem of her yellow silk gown oil oh that is not very ion long g objected lucia for the gowns crowns of the chinese ladies are very stort short 11 excuse me but the gown of the princess was quite as long oil I 1 as lucis lucias walkin walking dress the length leneth and glossiness el OSSI of this incomparable pigtail tall had bad a 0 to in love with and ad to marry her it was a very t grand match for swen kiang for lier her father was only an emperor over a few poor little islands out bat the king yoo foo had two very serious faults in swen kianos eyes cyus he was old enough to be tier her great grandfather and besides that he was a hunchback oh returned lucia leasin teasingly ly those are not such very serious faults in a king alas returned the painter the princess was so BO ignorant so childish she lived you vou know more than a thousand years year ago slie she thought them so she was very unhappy at the idea of marrying ar ry in r the u uly ugly ly old old kino king and in he her r do despair by 1 I r she s shook look off ail all the blue bells bell from her tower and trampled tv arp p on and crushed to pieces the deli delicate snail shells that formell tile the ornamental borders of her flower beds would eve even in ill her despair have bavo wd violent hands bands 11 on her brecious Ere precious cious pi pigtail stait if her maids of 0 hon honor or had ad not rushed to the rescue after shedding torrents of tears and stamping her pudgy little feet till the they ached she left her porcelain tower and balint taking her fishing roil rod went off to the shore to divert her mind by fishing fis liin AS she fished she sang tile the hong boug tc the le princess hang bang was of her own improvisation isa tion bicie it is rie hoa I 1 went liv by the ilie silver sta sia iut but isan nna ana woo lb it nie me never a list kiili wal it scales of lit cold only a wander rand cr arav and olt old vi ho cut pat past A gander old ugly anil and 1 mriln alin what in the world I 1 do with win hm arala tra ara la la is T tra a la I 1 la 1 I dont think much ol of that son song even if a princess did sing it ex e X lucia in III tile chil chilleme lese i it is moro more melodious rejoined thi tl 1 0 painter it is 19 1 I am ani afraid badly translated tra 1 sI atell did 3 ou translate itasker it asked assunta slyly j the painter turned red and went on rapidly lily this song suno sung in chinese and 11 in the sweet voice voi re of faben iven kiang attracted the attention of a youth who was pacing the sands not very far away avray this young mans name was tu foo he was the architect employed by the emperor to the bells on his bis pagoda tu foo approached the princess slowly and throw threw himself face downward at her feet then still kneeling he felt in the bosom of his silken and drawing out his visiting card painted in tile the style of chinese chine se art on oil rice rice paper r I 1 crimson in color and a foot and it a half long respectfully presented it i alic ade princess had note not caught aught any fish and besides had bad grown tired of sitting there on the shore alone so she graciously deigned to receive his card glanced at the youth and perceiving ce that his eves were as narrow and rid ivina 0 oblique lique and I 1 his 1 3 13 pig pigtail tail almost as long long and thick as her own T pronounced renounced hi him in to herself a very handsome colue man sh she e commanded the neeling kneeling youth to arise and seat himself by her ter side well the princess and t the is architect sat bat there on the sands and the little bluebirds above their heads sang and i sang and flew about and around them the line fell from the princess hand and sank down into the sea how tu foo found the courage to do so I 1 dont know bet br 1 1 ir ah hour had bad hardly gone by when he lung himself at the princess little feet arnd begged her to bo be his wife and share with aill him the artists ion loaf f 1 artists loaf how does it taste 1 I wonder asked felicita who had not spoken before 4 oh not so go bad it is kneaded ill by the M muses uses and baked by apollo some people not many I 1 fear however eat it with a relish at least in china and japan if not in england or america S still till swen kian kiang was a prudent girl though not prudent prudent enough to prefer an old king to a young lover and that this artists artist bread might not lack for butter she hurried up tip into her chamber fetched a jewel casket from her dressing dresing table and re returning gave it to tu foo lie he took the casket casket carefully under his bis left arm give gave his riat right to the princess and the two ste stepped bcd into a little boat which was vas a anchored rich ored near by tu foo took the oa oars r s and rowed ot off in the direction of the is island ian of bliss see there is the bark it is already a long along distance away from the shore soon they will land on tire the blissful island when who had been sleeping since dinner time woke up and roared for his daughter alast she was nowhere to bo be seen the emperor rushed down to the thereal tea shore pee red out over thi the e water siw saw the jiwat boat recognized the fugitives and called loudly for his men at arms there will they e y gro go marchin marching tto over the little bridge 0 which separates the main island from the one adjoining it how warlike they look in their owing flowing robes of panther skin lined with astrachan and with quivers of fish skin han hanging crino over the right ri hit shoulder these warriors warriors march solemnly down to the pier step on board the chinese frigate the emperor and his son in law who was to have been king icing yoo foo follow and pursue the flying lovers poor swen kiang unhappy tu foo the frigate gains rapidly rabidly on oil them the Prine princess wrings her hands and weeps already she sees in imagination her lover deprived of his nose ohis his eyes put out his pigtail cut cutoff 0 IT close to b his is head his legs rowed hewed from his body the poor ious young men who run off with emperors daughters swen swell kiaric kiang utters litters a piercing scream clas clasps s her hands bands and invokes t the e aid of tho the knese chinese venus what is her name asked lucia lucia answered the painter slowly some say however her name is is assunta and others assert it to be felicita the goddess hears bears her ring rayer prayer and answers it in the twinkling of an eye swen kiang and tu foo ar are turned into two pretty little birds there look they are flying up into tile the blue sky billing and kissing each other oilier as t they ey go that h at is the 8 story t ory fair ladies the plate tells me and the pintails pigtails pig pi tails the fine pintails pigtails pig pia tails of swen kian kiang and and tu too foo what became came of them true I 1 had forgotten the pigtails pintails pig tails they were left lying in the boat and were changed by tho the goddess into two long ugly snakes and when the humpbacked hump backed king icing yoo foo and the lord ili high h executioner won wong n baug bang his constant companion stepped on board the boat to look for the lovers one of the snakes bit the kin kins kings s too toe and tho the other the lord high ecil lioneres lio tio ners heel causing them thea bo both 11 to ciup very high and swear very I 1 loudly IV it in C chinese hil lese you may may suppose that this was all very pled pleasing slug to lucia assunta and 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