Word: hainan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors. Does he learn his lessons? Far from it; this enfant, is idle and, when his Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue, a lament for the days...