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He tosted Ordure, and his Ileart was grieved.
In the southern Tse country lived Yu Kietlow, who was a magistrate over the district of Looking. He had not been in office ten days, when he was suddenly alarmed with a great distress of mind, accom- panied with a violent perspiration, on which he immediately resigned. his office, and returned home. When he arrived he found that his
father had been sick two days. The physician said, that he could know whether the patient would be better or worse by his stools,. which, if bitter, would indicate a favorable turn. Yu made the experiment and found them sweet, which grieved his iņmost heart; and in the evening he prostrated himself before the god of the North. Star, imploring that he might die instead of his father.
She suckled her Mother-in-law unweariedly.
DURING the Tang dynasty, the grandmother of Tsuy Channan, lady Tang lived with her mother-in-law, Changsun, who was so aged that all her teeth were lost. This honorable lady every day carefully nade her toilet, and went into her aged relative's apartment, and suckled her; by which means, the old lady's life and strength were prolonged many years, although she could not eat so much as a grain of rice. One day she was taken sick, and calling all her descendants around her, she said, 'Hearken! I have no means of recompensing the virtue of my daughter-in-law, but I request that the wives of all my children will serve her with the same affection and respect that she has shown to me.'
He resigned his office to seek his Mother
In the Sung dynasty lived Choo Shauchang, whose mother Lew, when he was seven years of age, because she was hated by his father's wife, left the family; and mother and son did not see each other for about fifty years. It was during the reign of Shintsung, that Choo resigned his official station and went into the Tsin country, and there made an engagement with his family, ' that he would not return until he had found his mother.' He then traveled into Tungehow, where he discovered his mother, who, at that time was aged upwards of seventy years.
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He washed his mother's Utensils.
In the reign of Yuenyew of the Sung dynasty, Hwang Tingkien filled the office of prefect. He was of a very dutiful disposition, and although he was honorable and renowned, yet he received his mother's commands with the utmost deference. Every day he cleaned her utensils, with his own hands; nor for one moment did he ever omit perfori the duties of a filial son.
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