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| | Brave Chinese Boy |
 | | One of them was a Chinese boy, fifteen years of age, who carried the message from Sir Claude MacDonald to Mr. |
 | | They dressed him up as a beggar, gave him a bowl of porridge, with Sir Claude MacDonald's letter, wrapped in oiled silk, at the bottom of it, and let him down in a basket from the Tartar wall. |
 | | This was done on the night of July the fourth ; he reached Tien-Tsin, after a series of thrilling adventures, on July the twenty-first, delivered his message, and in one week to the day, he was back again, with encouraging news, to the British legation. |
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