. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . fe of their son. All heads in the room nodded em- 53 RED, YELLOW, AND BLACK phatically and all cried, Yes, yes. Letthe girl be sold! There followed days of searching here andthere up and down the narrow streets ofthe big city for a family who wished tobuy a baby girl. Finally an agreementwas made with the Wangs. They wouldgive two dollars for her. Again the fortune-teller was called tothe Kahn home. Are the stars in favorof this deal?5 he was asked. Again the old blind fortune-teller askedthe hour and date of the birth of the K
. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . fe of their son. All heads in the room nodded em- 53 RED, YELLOW, AND BLACK phatically and all cried, Yes, yes. Letthe girl be sold! There followed days of searching here andthere up and down the narrow streets ofthe big city for a family who wished tobuy a baby girl. Finally an agreementwas made with the Wangs. They wouldgive two dollars for her. Again the fortune-teller was called tothe Kahn home. Are the stars in favorof this deal?5 he was asked. Again the old blind fortune-teller askedthe hour and date of the birth of the Kahnbaby girl and the date of the birth of theboy who was to be the future he touched his finger to his fore-head and to his cheeks, and again he movedhis fingers about as if counting a sum,and again he chanted in a sing-song tonewords no one else could understand. Then he solemnly pronounced the de-cree. This match will never do. Thebaby girl has been born under the dogstar and the boy has been born underthe cat star. As the dog is stronger than 60. By courtesy of World Outlook This Chinese woman is walking the streets trying to sellboth of these girl babies. In times of famine they even^tradethem for poultry TWO CHIXESE GIRL BABIES the cat, so the wife would be strongerthan the husband. Of course this mustnot be. As dogs and cats always fightso they would quarrel as husband andwife. It must not be.: Once more there was distress in theKahn household—most of all in the heartof the mother. Must she, after all, drownher babe? She wept and tried to rememberwhat awful sin she must have committedto make the gods so angry with her. Past many bends and turnings in thenarrow streets, packed on all sides withlittle gray brick houses, away in anotherpart of the big city, there stood in themidst of a grove of mulberry trees a two-storied house hidden from the street by ahigh stone wall. One house is built ontop of another, said some as they evil spirits can easil
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