University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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20 CHILD LIFE IN CHINA Jack-0'-lantern? His father gave this to him yesterday when he visited the New Year fair at Fu-tzi-niiao. Chin-fu's hands fmt gs are stained deep blue. I job as apprentice , . in a weaver shop is to fi -' spin and wind the 'L 'F-5 heavy cotton thread, and prepare it for the looms. He hums a street tune while the shuttles about him click, and longs to get out with the boys who are tiying kites. Last week he slipped out while it was still light A Smeg Cmuly Stand to throw and roll cash with at neighborhood gang. His employer found him and beat him angrily over the head with a stick. I saw him in the twilight dusk, squatting in front of the shop and eating a bowl of brown rice with a pinch of greens on top. He tried to smile at me as I passed, but his eyes were still teary,--and very wistful. ' They threw their arms around each other, ducked their heads and giggled into their hands when I called them Siao-mei-mei tlit-tle sisterl. Two wee sisters going to school, dressed in flowered cotton coat and trousers, pink socks, pink shoes, and knitted caps. Black hair in one long plait with red string at the end. They are going to Mingteh Christian Primary School, where their record in reading and writing characters, in singing and in gymnastics, is making the father, who owns a. jewelry store near Shwei-si Men, very proud of his daughters.

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22 CHILD LIFE IN CHINA the left side of his foot, then with one foot behind the other. He catches it on his toe, flips it up again and lands it on his upturned forehead. Wei-ping challenges him to a contest and loses. Just then the little victor notices me watching him, puckers up his mouth, struts about as if to say, You can't do this! The gang joins good naturedly in my laugh and We are all friends. Two cash or a copper, a little bit of cloth, three chicken feathers, a pair of nimble legs and ankles and you have the most universal winter sport of Chinese children, rich and poor. Precious jewels, precious jewels. Siao-san was leaning back and fairly shouting the hymn at the little Community Sunday School. He loved the songs, thc picture-cards, and the stories. .But the long sermon by the superintendent and the prayer were quite tiresome. Two things drew him most strongly to Sunday School, the promise of a fC'oncluded on page 126'j P qv 1'f'0l0 UUJl1SNiunl'I10!r1 Ilurcfm