A CHINESE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2447, 17 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CHINESE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON.

Two women came before a mandarin in Ciif!K>, cieli of l.heni protesting that .she was the mother of a little child that t!icy had brought with thsm. They were so anil so positive, that the mandarin ■vv.'i.'i sorely puzzled. Jic retired to consul, with his wife, who was 11 wise and clever woman whose opinion was held in c/reat repute in tho neighbourhood Siie j'L'![iUMLed live minutes in which Indeliberate. At the end of that time .she. spoke: "Let the servants catch me a large lish in the river, and let it lie brought to mo here alive." This was dyne. " firing me now the infant," she said, " but leave the women in the outer chamber." This was done too. Then the tmuiduriu's wife caused the baby to be undressed and its clothes put oil the !ar.i.;c li-h. "Carry the creature outside now, and throw it into the liver in si;;ht of the two women." Tli<! Kcrvaiit o!.cyi;.l ' lie onlcr?, flinging til:: iitll illl-o lilt! WiHTO it J'oili'd about ;:nd i:! rn I'vl.-d -- diuMi-.ted, no donU, l.v iU:- V. :■[■:.<• i'. '•* il. .-jj il. Was t>|!» of the iiwlh ts thr.nv herself into tin' dni\v;,ii!L' child. " Without doubt (die is the 11 le motli-r," tint isi:i.i<liii-sn'.< wif.t declared, and c'iiii:ts;t>i<U«l ti.nt she skould Jm ri;-:i:ii!!'{, n>i'l liic child -*iv<.-n to her; and t! I■' isi-m•!:iViI) nodded hi : he;id, ,"ind fleiuvht hi; «.• • !;. •v. •. I _w'mi.tn in I'ie ! io:i o! iti.'Minv' t!i'- l:!d!i: b iby in Ihe J,i.;t ;,iik -iii*' ii'l ;I:i■ iin her wardrobe.