Pao-yue was in his mind merely bent upon discerning, from the rest, the slip referring to his own native village, when he espied, on the other side, a slip with the large characters: the Principal Record of the Twelve Maidens of Chin Ling.
What is the meaning, therefore inquired Pao-yue, of the Principal Record of the Twelve Maidens of Chin Ling?
As this is the record, explained the Fairy, of the most excellent and prominent girls in your honourable province, it is, for this reason, called the Principal Record.
ve often heard people say, observed Pao-yue, that Chin Ling is of vast extent; and how can there only be twelve maidens in it! why, at present, in our own family alone, there are more or less several hundreds of young girls!
the Fairy gave a faint smile. Through there be, she rejoined, so large a number of girls in your honourable province, those only of any note have been selected and entered in this record. The two presses, on the two sides, contain those who are second best; while, for all who remain, as they are of the ordinary run, there are, consequently, no registers to make any entry of them in.
Pao-yue upon looking at the press below, perceived the inscription: Secondary Record of the twelve girls of Chin Ling; while again in another press was inscribed: Supplementary Secondary Record of the Twelve girls of Chin Ling. Forthwith stretching out his hand, Pao-yue opened first the doors of the press, containing the supplementary secondary Record, extracted a volume of the registers, and opened it. When he came to examine it, he saw on the front page a representation of something, which, though bearing no resemblance to a human being, presented, at the same time, no similitude to scenery; consisting simply of huge blotches made with ink. The whole paper was full of nothing else but black clouds and turbid mists, after which appeared the traces of a few characters, explaining that
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