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Identifier: cu31924023253796 (find matches)
Title: Child life in Chinese homes
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Bryson, Mrs
Subjects: Children
Publisher: (London) : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t him,they will no doubt tie his pigtail to the same appendage on anotherboys head, which will be very uncomfortable for them both. If it is summer-time, our young friend wears nothing upon hishead, and is only clothed in a jacket or vest of loose cotton or grass-cloth, with small baggy trousers of the same material. But if theweather is cold, he wiU, no doubt, be wearing half a dozen vestsand coats, one above another, and some of them wiU be padded withcotton-wool. The first thing that strikes you, as you look at him, ishow very difficult he must find it to make any use of his arms. Uponhis head he wears a small skullcap of black or blue silk, with a littlescarlet twist at the top, and very likely a thick tassel of silkenthreads falling down behind. His shoes have very thick white soles,and very often the toes are embroidered by his proud mother withfanciful httle designs of flowers or butterflies. Sometimes he wearsin his girdle a little purse, which has also been embroidered by his
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42 CHILD LIFE IN CHINESE HOMES. mother, but it will not hold many of the copper coins with a holethrough the centre, which we call cash. If he is ever rich enoughto have saved any number of these coins, he strings them on a wispof straw or piece of string, making a firm knot at each end to keepthem safe. If he does not possess a purse, he is at no loss for a receptacle forhis boyish treasures, since his sleeves are so large and long that theyform a capital hiding-place. In China, little books are not calledpocket editions, but sleeve editions ; a man does not pocket anything,as in England, but he sleeves it. Having reached the school-house, our boy-friend enters, carrying mhis hand some small present for the grave-looking elderly person whois to be his teacher, and his first act is to do reverence and burnincense before the tablet which has the name of the sage Confaciuswritten upon it. The furniture of the room consists of a numberof little desks or tables, with high stools behind th

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