Punch (93.1887)

146 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Octobbb l, 1887.

AMERICAN CHINA.

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" The Mandarin had an only daughter, named Li-Chi, who fell ■
with Chang, a young man who lived in the island-home represents:
top of the pattern, and who had heen her father's secretary. Th|
overheard them one day making vows of love under the orange-t:_

sternly forbade the unequal match; but the lovers contrived to e. — J*^4 I a , 1(

concealed for awhile in the gardener's cottage, and thence made thei=- Ql caj .unrlower oi my soul s secret

in a boat to the island-home of the young lover. The enraged M= ^ ^_ <d >, Jeat tnee- What avails the

pursued them with a whip, and would have beaten them to death, zz— _ 2 0) Jrnithologioal metamorphosis,

the gods rewarded their fidelity by changing them both into turtl— flj O O the Mandarin's country seat,

The picture is called the Willow-Pattern, not only because it is a— lge-tree, the elegant wooden

disastrous love, but because the elopement occurred ' when the willo — ^ 3 all, the willow, only to sing

to Bhed its leaves.'"—Legend of the Willow-PatUrn. =— sting thy Chang more than

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that of the tradition. Season, willow-fall. Hour, su=- ^ ^ p q sublimated saffron-

Li- Chi {sings)— — " —* « > lp weeping at sight of this f

The poor soul sat sighing by a rum-looking tree, = -~ q ■= International Amalgamated

Sing, once a green willow; =- O -free-with-the-whip-hand-of-

Bnt now all its leaves smell of base £ s. d.; — — diddle Kingdom, what would

Sing willow, willow, willow! Q 1 ?