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[Anville Azote]

On 8/15/06, Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
>         Zhang says that in olden days Mason and Dixon would have been
> beheaded for not forewarning the company about the eclipse.  The next
> evening Zhang tells the company and the Becks the story of Hsi and Ho.
> This really is an ancient Chinese folk tale, that was translated into
> English by Isaac Newton from a French translation of the original
> Chinese rendition.
>

The less cultured of us probably remember this from Larry Gonick's
"Cartoon History of the Universe II", where it appears in volume 9.

-anv.