<h2><SPAN name="chapter-31"><abbr title="Thirty-One">XXXI.</abbr> <br/> A DWARF.</SPAN></h2>
<p><span class="smallcaps">In</span> the reign of K'ang Hsi, there was a magician who
carried about with him a wooden box, in which he had
a dwarf not much more than a foot in height. When
people gave him money he would open the box and bid
the little creature come out. The dwarf would then
sing a song and go in again. Arriving one day at Yeh,
the magistrate there seized the box, and taking it into
his yamên asked the dwarf whence he came. At first
he dared not reply, but on being pressed told the
magistrate everything. He said he belonged to a
respectable family, and that once when returning home
from school he was stupified by the magician, who gave
him some drug which made his limbs shrink, and then
took him about to exhibit to people. The magistrate
was very angry and had the magician beheaded, himself
taking charge of the dwarf. He was subsequently very
anxious to get him cured, but unable to obtain the proper
prescription.</p>
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