t'ou

In my limited experience, the fu t'ou is a great blessing.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

As none of them, with the exception of the fu t'ou, had ever been in

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

On directing the interpreter to give the fu t'ou the coolies 'pork money, I learned that on the previous occasion the man had kept an undue proportion of it.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

"Little fu t'ou," the coolies called him, because of the careful watch he kept for any stragglers of the caravan.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Apparently the fu t'ou and the cook, Jack and I were the only ones equal to the trip, as I had already told the interpreter he might go by the main road.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Going out into the court where the men were lounging, he called loudly to the fu t'ou to come for the coolies 'money, naming the sum I intended to give, about one hundred cash to a man.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

The fu t'ou, however, tried to get even with the man who told, by discharging him.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Almost t'ou has t'e scientific mind t'at reasons and remembers.

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The new fu t'ou was a Chengtu man of a type quite unlike the others, tall, slender, well made, and with decidedly good features.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

And when I called the fu t'ou into council I found he had once gone this way, and was not inclined to go again.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall