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but a mother once gone will never return.'
His wife did not venture
to object to the proposal; and Koh immediately dug a hole of about three cubits deep, when suddenly he lighted upon a pot of gold, and on the metal read the following inscription: “Heaven bestows this treasure upon Koh Keu, the dutiful son; the magistrate may not seize it, nor shall the neighbors take it from him."
He seized the Tiger and saved his Father.
In the Han dynasty lived Yang Hiang, a lad of fourteen years, who was in the habit of following his father to the fields to cut grain. Once a tiger seized his father, and was slowly carrying him off, when Yang, although he had no iron weapon in his hand, anxious for his father and forgetting himself, quickly ran forward and seized the tiger by the neck. The beast let the prey fall from his teeth and fled, and Yang's father was thus saved from injury and death.
He collected Mulberries to support his Mother.
DURING the Han dynasty lived Tsae Shun, whose father died when he was young, and who served his mother very dutifully. It happen- ed that during the troubles of the times, when Wangmang was plot- ting to usurp the throne, there were years of scarcity, in which he could not procure food, and Tøae was compelled to gather mulberries, which he assorted, putting them into two vessels. The red eyebrow- ed robber saw him and inquired why he did thus. Tsae replied, 'the black and ripe berries I give to my mother, while the yellow and unripe ones I eat myself.' The bandit admired his filial affec- tion, and rewarded him with three nieasures of white rice, and a leg of an ox.
He laid up the Oranges før his Mother. Lun Tsein, a lad six years old, who lived in the time of Han, and in the district of Kewkiáng, once met the celebrated general Yuen Shuh, who gave him a few oranges.
him a few oranges. Two of them the lad put in his bosom, and when turning to thank the giver, they fell out on the ground; which the general seeing, says, 'Why does my young friend, who is now a guest, put the fruit away in his bosom?' The youth bowing replies, 'My mother is very foud of oranges, and I wished, when I returned home, to present them to her.' At this answer, Yuen was much astonished.
On hearing the Thunder ne wept at the Tomb.
In the country of Wei, lived Wang Lau, a very dutiful child ; whose mother, when alive, was much afraid of thunder. After her death,