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 | | The circumstances, too, that one of the original Chinese coat cards should seem to have a special connection with one of the original numeral suits would explain how a set of coat cards came to be attached in Europe to each suit. |
| | It is highly probable, moreover, that Whiteflower (Page 73) and Redflower were originally marked Ten Myriads and Hundred Myriads, for in a lok pack (a variety of lich chih) from Tapu, near Swatow, cards marked "sprayflower," "hundred myriads," "thousand myriads," and "myriad myriads" are found in addition to the numeral suits. |
| | In the lok pack just referred to, the place of Stagflower is taken by Sprayflower, a further proof of the identity of both with Whiteflower. |
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