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2.Hui Tzu was prime minister in the Liang State. ChuangTzu went thither to visit him.Some one remarked: “Chuang Tzu has come. He wantsto be minister in your place," <strong>The</strong>reupon Hui Tzu wasafraid, and searched all over the State for three days andthree nights to find him.<strong>The</strong>n Chuang Tzu went to see Hui Tzu and said: “In thesouth there is a bird. It is a kind <strong>of</strong> Do you know it? Itstarted from the south sea to fly to the north sea. Excepton the wu-t'ung tree, it would not alight. It would eatnothing but the fruit <strong>of</strong> the bamboo, drink nothing butthe purest spring water. An owl which had got the rottencarcass <strong>of</strong> a rat, looked up as the phoenix flew <strong>by</strong>, andscreeched. Are you not screeching at me over yourkingdom <strong>of</strong> Liang?"3.Chuang Tzu and Hui Tzu had strolled on to the bridgeover the Hao, when the former observed: “See how theminnows are darting about! That is the pleasure <strong>of</strong>fishes."

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