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Many pieces of the bones were hanging on the wall; these were all newly dug out, but without any inscription. They were brought to the shop to have characters carved on them. It is said that every assortment of inscribed oracle bones obtained from the An-yang market in the past contains some of these ready made pieces; the proportions of such forgeries are somewhat variable. All spurious pieces are Lan's handwork. Lan has made such imitation work a regular profession; his skill in carving bones and jades is superb; what known outside as carved bones and jades from An-yang are in majority of the cases Lan's handworks. There is another man Wang, who has followed Lan's profession, but he is much less skillful.
   3. A Visit to Hsiao-t'un. The day got clear on the fourteenth; I was accompanied by a friend to Hsiao-t'un. In Hsiao-t'un I bought about one hundred pieces of the inscribed bones at the price of three dollars; all were brought to me by women and children, as Mr. Chang had predicted. There were also larger pieces, as long as two or three inches, but they asked three to four dollars per piece, which I did not buy. It is obvious that such conditions easily prove to the visitors to the site that at the time inscribed bones were still continually coming out of the soil. Such fragments of bones were found almost in every villager's home. The villagers said that when curio-dealers came to collect, they wanted only large pieces and they were ready to pay high price for them; so in digging for these bones, only large pieces were picked out, the smaller ones were all cast away, which women and children collected and stored for some one who might be willing to buy. Those purchased this time were just cast-off pieces; some bear only one or half a stroke. As the aim of the trip was only to make some inquiry about the actual