then, after prayiug to Wn Tsz-si(the tut...

then, after prayiug to Wn Tsz-si(the tutelary deity of the strearn, and originally an upright minister, whose body was cast into the river after Wu had oommitted suicide), put the key of the dike water gate into an envelope and threw it into the stream, whereapon the waters retired. But as by that time they wonld have flowed back in any case, even the Chinese did not regard the experiment as very miraoulous. A conple of hnndred years later the emperor, Kan Tsung.hadteniron plates, each weigbing about 150 ponnds, sunk in the river by way of propitiating the spirits, but the water promptly carried away both charros and ernbankments. Only last century a Hang-Chow tea merchant leaped into the river, like another Marcus Cnrtius, to avert the nual