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...often eats only two meals a day-one of rice and one of congee (millet or rice gruel), with salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh (Ricksha Boy) says ricksha pullers take pride in an elastic, steady gait. Two Old China Hands once put it this...
...yellow jog came creeping down The bridges, till the houses' walls Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. -Oscar Wilde...
...white horse, made the mistake of meeting up with his old cavalry man friend, Major General William Chase, in a Tokyo suburb. The General proffered the Admiral a hoary steed and insisted that he trot his stuff. Taking the bit in his teeth, the Admiral ventured a slow, seagoing jog, dismounted quickly, gasped: "Don't leave me alone with this animal. I was never so scared in my life...
...helmet left behind when the Japanese stole quietly away from jog-bound Kiska...
...press observed that he was "the only athlete in the world who can look at 35 Rembrandts in his own home and then take a warm-up jog through 40,000 acres without leaving his own domain. Yet he is the most democratic member of [his] village-keen, alert, gracious and always ready with a quick smile and unlimited courtesy." This time he finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles...