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"Seventy-two precious arts are held in a brocade bag, they're kept just like a great treasure. Eighteen turn out the essence in the famous treatises on pugilistic arts. Eighteen other arts describe in more detail training methods if you use special tools and training equipment. Wonderful ways of adopting the flexibility in the breath-chi, exercises in obtaining hardness and lightness, clenching methods are written with all the blood of monks in magazines that are kept being a treasure in the brocade bag. One can seldom meet people who genuinely wish to do exercises with zeal: to become a real hero, you have to often feel bitter taste of hard labour. " /Secret Shaolin Treatises about the Pugilistic Art/ '10 February. The Peregrine flew north across the valley. He was half miles away, but I could see the brown and black of his wings, the shining gold of his back. The pale cream of his tail coverts looked like a band of straw twisted across the base of his tail. Thinking he'd return downwind, I went into fields with the river to watch for him. I stood in the lee of the hawthorn hedge, looking through it on the north, sheltered in the bitter wind'