. A'Chu and other stories. NATIVE EVANGELISTS. THE TROUBLE THAT CAME TO THECARPENTERS WIFE YOU may have heard that Chinesemothers sometimes throw away their littlechildren. You have doubtless thoughtthem very cruel and selfish, as I oncedid, till I understood why the carpen-ters wife threw away her baby. The carpenters wife was a bright-faced, smiling woman, who seemed neverto have had a trouble in her life. Thefirst child was like his mother, good-natured and one heard the carpenters baby cry. One day a servant called with a present — bright-colored eggs, preserved ginger-root, an
. A'Chu and other stories. NATIVE EVANGELISTS. THE TROUBLE THAT CAME TO THECARPENTERS WIFE YOU may have heard that Chinesemothers sometimes throw away their littlechildren. You have doubtless thoughtthem very cruel and selfish, as I oncedid, till I understood why the carpen-ters wife threw away her baby. The carpenters wife was a bright-faced, smiling woman, who seemed neverto have had a trouble in her life. Thefirst child was like his mother, good-natured and one heard the carpenters baby cry. One day a servant called with a present — bright-colored eggs, preserved ginger-root, and what not, in abasket. That was their way of sending the good newsthat another baby boy had come to the carpenters week passed before I had time to call on ourneighbor. I met the carpenters wife walking aboutthe workshop with the new baby in her arms. Butthere was a worry in her face I had never seen therebefore. The new baby was a fine-looking fellow, plump andstrong as the average child of a month old. It waseasy to find nice thin
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