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Show UNG JNMIDAIR. ' , Tho Perilous night of i Soldier In Chi-pi Chi-pi nose Thibet. S An amusing story is told o the Eng- I lish officer who determined to enter I Chinese Thibet by stratngrn. Heman- I aged to cross tho frontier at night, and J I so escaped the guard. j 1 On. the following day, however, while J the officer was journeying deeper into j II Thibet, the Thibetan .soldiers overtook t I him, and informed him that as the ! countfy was unsafe, because of rob- V bers, they would go with him in order ,8 to protect him, to wlu'ch arrangement I tho troveler was compelled to agree. B In a few hours they came to a river, M which was crossed by a rope bridge. m Tho Thibetans passedover first, in or- m tier tq show that the bridge was safe, M and then the official got into the noose fl and was pulled along by the Thibetans, Suddenly, however, they censed pull-M pull-M ing, and left the. Englishman hanging in midair nbotu the rushing torrent. M In vain tho officer shouted to the ,m Thibetans to pulU They mcrclj-smoked and nodded their heads. The hcurn m passed, and still the QiUcer luuig above H the torrent. At bust "the Thibetuns S . agreed to -pull him back if lie would leave Tibet inuneliatply, Th.is'of S course, lie wa compelled to do, uu S took hia depnrturo tvixu. tho forbidden V land. 1 '-vw"' |