"Ferry's scouts." He scrutinized me. "What command do you say you--""I wish you hadn't told me this," he murmured, uneasily. "It would have been far----"
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"And yet, you look an intelligent sort of being," he continued, "even though you are an anachronism.""Certainly, I remember that," Frank replied; "and it cured him, too."TAE-PING REBELS. TAE-PING REBELS.Men of various trades were working in the shops at Asakusa, and their way of operating was of much interest to our young friends. A barber was engaged in arranging the hair of a customer; the forehead had been shaven, and the hair at the back of the head was gathered into a knot and thickly plastered, so as to make it stick and remain in place when turned over into a short cue. The customer knelt on the ground in front of a box that contained the tools of the operator's trade, and by his side was a portable furnace for heating water. The whole equipment was of very little value, and the expense of fitting up a fashionable barber's shop in New York would send hundreds of Japanese barbers on their way rejoicing.