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with her Chinese [[underline]]hao[[/underline]]; a new red Mandarin coat; a new gray cat-skin coat (Mongolian cat); and numerous smaller trinkets and toys. My chief present, and the joy of my heart, was a Chinese writing box. These boxes may be had at a few of the best paper shops either ready fitted with the necessary implements of a scholar or ready to be fitted with such implements as the purchaser seeks to include. Dorothy had selected an excellent box of [[underline]]nan-mu[[/underline]], a fragrant hardwood, and had had it fittedto suit her fancy. On the top was an inscription of four characters carved and painted green, which had been especially written by Fu Hsi-hua.  The characters are,Yun Ch'uang Ch'ing Wan ([[four handwritten Chinese characters]]) and their meaning Dorothy has translated as follows:
^[[handwritten insert]] Where the [[Yiiw ?]] flowers send their fragrance thro' wide windows
Books are beloved;
The scholar is quiet,
Loving the tools of his work
As though they were beautiful playthings,[[/insertion]]

When the box is opened the upper half ^[[lies]] flat on the desk.  Inside of the cover are envelopes and paper.  On the top tray are a small double incense burner, for without incense the best literary work is not possible, [[strikethrough]][[illegible]][[/strikethrough]] red ink, for seals, in a porcelain box, my two special horse seals, a little paste box and a little stamp box.  At the right is a pen tray, under which are two pens, a stick of red ink, a paste-spreader of ivory (the paste box has an old cash with a square hole set in the cover, and the spreader will just fit the hole), a little ivory pen-knife with a steel blade, and the key to the box.  The box is lined with blue silk and each thing has its own little special hole, lined with pink silk. When this top tray is lifted out other delightful things are displayed. There is another stick of red ink; a stick of black ink; a jade ink-stone; [[strikethrough]]and[/strikethrough]] a balance with a beam of ivory and a weight shaped like an old "Trouser" cash, just right for weighing letters and such things; and an old ivory paper-cutter and bookmark.   I had long been wanting a thing of this sort, and to have it so beautifully done, with things so much to my liking gave me immense pleasure.  There were other things - a ring with a small square of ivory etched with a