The area of Peking by the Bridge of Heaven is home to a modey assortment of pedlars, acrobats, street performers of every irnagin-able kind, and all sorts of other denizens of the River and Lake world. As Trinket approached he saw a platoon of twenty policemen witil two constables at their head, pushing their way through the crowd. They were dragging after them five ragged pedlars in chains, and were holding seven or eight sticks of small red candied crab-apples, which they had clearly impounded from the pedlars.

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