ABSTRACT

Thereupon Tzii Yang gave orders that Lieh Tzii should be supplied with f d . But when Lieh TzG saw the messengers, he bowed twice and declined.

When the messengers had gone, and Lieh Tzii went within, his wife gazed at him, and beating her breast said, 'I have heard that the wife and children of a man of TAO are happy and joyful. But see how hungry I am. His Excellency sent you food, and you would not take it. Is not this flying in the face of Providence ?'