"Have you not heard," replied Sang Hu, "how when the men of Kuo fled, one of them, named Lin Hui, cast aside most valuable regalia and carried away his child upon his back? Some one suggested that he was influenced by the value of the child;--but the child's value was small. Or by the inconvenience of the regalia;--but the inconvenience of the child would be much greater. Why then did he leave behind the regalia and carry off the child? "Lin Hui himself said, 'The regalia involved a mere question of money. The child was from God.' "And so it is that in trouble and calamity mere money questions are neglected, while we ever cling nearer to that which is from God. And between neglecting and clinging to, the difference is great. "The friendship of the superior man is negative like water. The friendship of the mean man is full-flavoured like wine. That of the superior man passes from the negative to the affectionate. That of the mean man passes from the full-flavoured to nothing. The friendship of the mean man begins without due cause, and in like manner comes to an end. "I hear and obey," replied Confucius; and forthwith he went quietly home, put an end to his studies and cast aside his books. His disciples no longer saluted him as teacher; but his love for them deepened every day. * * * * * On another occasion, Sang Hu said to him again, "When Shun was about to die, he commanded the Great Yü as follows:--Be careful. Act in accordance with your physical body. Speak in accordance with your feelings. You will thus not get into difficulty with the former nor suffer annoyance in the latter. And as under these conditions you will not stand in need of outward embellishment of any kind, it follows that you therefore will not stand in need of anything." Also an episode of doubtful authorship. The commentators, however, have nothing to say against its genuineness. Chuang Tzŭ put on cotton clothes with patches in them, and arranging his girdle and tieing on his shoes, To keep them from falling off. went to see the prince of Wei. "How miserable you look, Sir!" cried the prince. "It is poverty, not misery," replied Chuang Tzŭ. "A man who has TAO cannot be miserable. Ragged clothes and old boots make poverty, not misery. Mine is what is called being out of harmony with one's age. "Has your Highness never seen a climbing ape? Give it some large tree, and it will twist and twirl among the branches as though monarch of all it surveys. Yi and Fêng Mêng An ancient archer and his apprentice. can never catch a glimpse of it.