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Show X I g i 6 ] A Fire at Lintsing 457 raspberries canned by Mrs. Evans two years ago. Missionaries surely are forehanded. Rice, did you ask? Yes, even that had not been forgotten, having been most generously provided by some youthful (?) guests; but in an unguarded moment, one to whom the W. B. M. P. will be forever grateful whisked it out of sight; for no sensible people will scatter rice at such a time, and the prodigal waste could never be forgiven by the provident Chinese. No clumsy cart or natty jinriksha took the party to the train, but a neat little Ford, bearing the placard, B. M. C. 58 (British Municipal Concession). It had been secured to bring the United States Vice- Consul for his part in the ceremony, and to make the first lap of the wedding journey seem like home. Five hours by train followed, across the delta of the Pei Ho and up into the beautiful hill country of the northern shore of the Gulf of Pei-Chili to Pei-tai-ho, where they were met by Chinese friends with donkeys for the last seven miles of the trip. A Fire at Lintsing By Susan Tallmon Sargent You may have heard of the fire at Lintsing that occurred a few days after I left. We had been having the shavings from the hospital stored in the cellar under my office in order that we might have them for use for lighting hospital fires in the winter. We do not know how they caught fire, but when first discovered fire was pouring out of the basement windows. The fact that there were brick walls on all four sides of this coal room limited the fire and it was put out before it had burned more than the floor of my office and one built-in case and a small medicine cupboard. It happened that that bookcase contained hospital books and the cupboard a few instruments and more expensive medicines. These were insured by the A. B. C. F. M. as Board property. The value was about $70.00, though the books could not be replaced for that money. My personal library was only damaged by water and smoke. The greatest damage to personal property was by breakage, for nearly all the furniture in the house was taken out. I am told that some one emptied one of my bureau drawers out of an upstairs window directly over the windows of the |