. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. strian into the centre of the thoroughfare. Peculiarly curious to x\merican eyes and ears, are the sights and soundswhich are to be seen in, and which issue from various bamboo-cageswherein live stock is kept, and exposed for sale in the narrow streets ; pup-py-dogs yelping, kittens mewing, rats squealing, fowls chuckling, ducksquacking, geese cackling, and pigs grunting, are the sounds which greet theear; while fish swimming, earthworms, slugs, and grubs (found at the rootof the sugar-ca
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. strian into the centre of the thoroughfare. Peculiarly curious to x\merican eyes and ears, are the sights and soundswhich are to be seen in, and which issue from various bamboo-cageswherein live stock is kept, and exposed for sale in the narrow streets ; pup-py-dogs yelping, kittens mewing, rats squealing, fowls chuckling, ducksquacking, geese cackling, and pigs grunting, are the sounds which greet theear; while fish swimming, earthworms, slugs, and grubs (found at the rootof the sugar-cane), with sharks fins, and other creature comforts (!), arevariously displayed in tubs or earthen pans, and exhibited for sale in a man-ner to arrest the gaze of passers-by ; and assuredly some of these ediblesappear rather extraordinary to our unsophisticated ideas. An itinerant bar-ber close by twangs his iron tweezers, to inform perambulators that he isprepared to beautify their tonsure ; while a brother barber in his vicinityoperates upon a patient customer seated upon a tripod stool, platting his. A Street in Cauton. 204 CHINA, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. tail, cleaning his ears, shaving his head and face, extracting all long andsuperfluous hair from his eyelashes, eyebrows, and nose, and concluding byadministering sundry thumps on the back and cracking his joints; when allis terminated, the barber receives five cash (about one American cent),carefully collects the hair in a small tub (which he afterward sells to themanure gatherers), and walks to another part of the town, hoping his ser-vices may again be speedily called into requisition. Hard by is a venderof cooked food, with an enormous reed umbrella fixed firmly in the ground,under the shade of which he dispenses to his hungry customers, in smallbowls or basins, rice, fat pork, and stews, swimming in oil, and theseepicures devour the savory mess with extreme gusto; beside this trader isseated a brother itinerant who v
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