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Show l'he Chinese Hunchback. I am reminded of a picture I purchased pur-chased some time ago. I bought it because be-cause I thought it was tho ugliest picture pic-ture I had ever seen. I tried to find out the history or meaning of the thing for some time without any success until a few days ago, while studying Taoism, I found the ugly man was one of the Taoist gods. In his early days his spirit had the power of leaving his body and roaming over the universe alone. When off on one of these trips, wolves came and ate his body. So when his spirit returned re-turned it found only a few boneB. After hunting around for awhile the spirit fOUUd the body of a dead lmuol.l.auU beggar who walked with an iron cane in his lifetime. The spirit crawled in this body and has lived in it ever since. Tih Kwalei, for that is the god's name, carries a gourd on his back, which, if the breath were blown out of it in the heavens, would bring back his original body. According to last accounts, the breath has not flown out of the gourd. Canton Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. |