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Title: Curious schools
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Schools
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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thstandingthe frequent assertion that Chinamen all look alike.There were some very animated countenances amongthe boys, who were from eighteen to twenty years ofage, their small eyes twinkling with suppressedroguishness; there were also stolid faces and sharpones, but not one that did not brighten up over thestrange page whose characters were being patientlyinterpreted to them. All had their hair shavenexcept on the crown, and wore their queues wound ina tight braid twice round their head. Taken alto-gether, the many dusky faces, with the small widea-part black eyes and peculiar features, gave a verystrange and oriental look to the assemblage, so thata missionarys son who was present and who hadhimself lived in China, said he felt quite at home. One of the oldest men had brought a new scholar,who was almost a middle-aged man, newly arrivedfrom San Francisco; and it was amusing to see thekind of patronage and over-sight which the moreexperienced one manifested towards the new comer,186
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THE WELCOME. A Chinese Mission School, who at once had a teacher assigned to him and theprimer put into his hands, and was made to repeatthe letters of the alphabet, whereupon it was foundthat he already knew many of them. I show him twice, said the friend ; he juscome las week. I lent him a pair, meaning the twocolumns of large and small letters ; I tell him all thesame ; but he no understand now. Bime-by he learn. But he did understand pretty well, and he was soeager to learn that he bent over the A B Cs as ab-sorbed as if it was the one concern of his life tolearn them. You tell them to him in Chinese,said the teacher; and so the list was run glibly over,and then in English; but when it came to the z>,he could not speak it. It is the letter which troublesthem more than any other. He called it ub; thenpronounced it uwe and finally after the teacher hadmade him watch her lips while shaping it, as they doat the school for deaf mutes, he enunciated an explo-sive ah-ve/ After the pup

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