What is an office-philactery? asked Yue-tsun with alacrity.
Now-a-days, explained the Retainer, those who become local officers provide themselves invariably with a secret list, in which are entered the names and surnames of the most influential and affluent gentry of note in the province. This is in vogue in every province. Should inadvertently, at any moment, one give umbrage to persons of this status, why, not only office, but I fear even ones life, it would be difficult to preserve. Thats why these lists are called office-philacteries. This Hsueeh family, just a while back spoken of, how could your worship presume to provoke? This case in question affords no difficulties whatever in the way of a settlement; but the prefects, who have held office before you, have all, by doing violence to the feelings and good name of these people, come to the end they did.
As he uttered these words, he produced, from inside a purse which he had handy, a transcribed office-philactery, which he handed over to Yue-ts who upon perusal, found it full of trite and unpolished expressions of public opinion, with regard to the leading clans and notable official families in that particular district. They ran as follows:
the Chia family is not chia, a myth; white jade form the Halls; gold compose their horses! The A Fang Palace is three hundred li in extent, but is no fit residence for a Shih of Chin Ling. The eastern seas lack white jade beds, and the Lung Wang, king of the Dragons, has come to ask for one of the Chin Ling Wang, (Mr. Wang of Chin Ling.) In a plenteous year, snow, (Hsueeh,) is very plentiful; their pearls and gems are like sand, their gold like iron.
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