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The names given on those occasions are not like your Jack, Harry, or Dick, but are usually words chosen from the dictionary for their lucky import, or because they are supposed to pos sess the power of warding off evil influences in the child's horoscope. You Should know that in China a baby's fortune is told almost as soon as he is born, the events of his life being foretold with sur prising particularity.
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