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in the best of health and spirits.  After a while we got ourselves to bed.

Next morning we had breakfast with the kids, saw some of the other members of the compound, and then walked into the city.  We visited the Second Hand Street, then went to the hospital and saw Mabel and Little Ben.  We were the first outsiders to be allowed in.  The kid is the picture of his father, with all of the Hubbard characteristics already, which means that he will look exactly like Ward and Emma Rose.

Hugh hurried home while we went in to call on the Chous.  Then we learned that since the trouble with the armies this fall and the closing of the schools again Hopei was dismissed and T'ang and Wang had moved their families to Peking.  With them in Peking there is not so much for me in Paotingfu.

Wehad lunch with the Galts, and soon returned to the Hubbard house.  Church was in the Robinson house and Hugh preached.  After church we three went into the city to have supper with the Chous. We had a good time, and left early to get to the gate before it should close at eight. Arrived there well before eight we found the gate already shut, with no reason for so shutting it and an insolent corporal in charge of the squad, who suggested that if we could not get out ot the South Gate we might try the West.  We tried various persuasions, except financial, and finally got out when some army carts acme up outside and had to get in.  Sun Yueh is back in the city again, and the condition of the place under this martial law, with troops little better than bandits, is depressing.

Next morning we started home, and the seven-thirty train finally left at nine, and got to Peking two hours late.

Wednesday, 9 December, we had Eleanor and the Hummels over for supper, and Arthur and I had a very good visit over pictures and thinga.

Thursday I gave the third of my lectures on Chinese painting, rushing through the last six or seven hundred years to the present.  People have been very cordial towards these talks.  We are goign to repeat them next term.