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1. The Master, having come to Wu-ch'ang, heard there the sound of stringed instruments and singing.
2. Well pleased and smiling, he said, 'Why use an ox-knife to kill a fowl?'
3. Tsze-yu replied, 'Formerly, Master, I heard you say,--"When the man of high station is well instructed, he loves men; when the man of low station is well instructed, he is easily ruled."'
4. The Master said, 'My disciples, Yen's words are right. What I said was only in sport.'
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