. A'Chu and other stories. talizing her victim could bear. Isaw that he walked very slowly, as I looked back, sheadded with a pull at her garments that rattled thesilver coins in the pouch hanging to her belt. Before Tai Yi Ma left Cheung Luns home, shehad persuaded his young wife to promise to give up theLittle One sleeping on her back. She had agreed thatthe baby should be taken across the bridge to becomea daughter to the Chans. In turn Tai Yi Ma hadpromised to make a present of so many silver roundpieces to Cheung Luns family, enough, she assuredthe mother, to keep the whole family till th
. A'Chu and other stories. talizing her victim could bear. Isaw that he walked very slowly, as I looked back, sheadded with a pull at her garments that rattled thesilver coins in the pouch hanging to her belt. Before Tai Yi Ma left Cheung Luns home, shehad persuaded his young wife to promise to give up theLittle One sleeping on her back. She had agreed thatthe baby should be taken across the bridge to becomea daughter to the Chans. In turn Tai Yi Ma hadpromised to make a present of so many silver roundpieces to Cheung Luns family, enough, she assuredthe mother, to keep the whole family till the next harvest. The old man heard with grief what had taken placein his absence. Not a movement of muscle, no changein his features, made sign of the sorrow in his true Chinese may take back a promise made in goodfaith without becoming a rascal. So it was reportedamong the women as they washed clothes at the brooksedge, that Cheung Luns Little One was betrothedto a son of Chan ASo. Religious Customs of the Chinese. A QUEER BIRTHDAY PARTY A GRAND birthday celebration was to be givenfor an idol kept in the big temple near ourhome. No one pretends to know just how old theidol is. It seems queer it should have a birthdayat all, since it never was born. Everybody admits itwas made just as any common object is made — ofwood, stone, or metal — I am not certain which itwas made of. The people of China understand perfectly well thattheir idols are the work of mens hands. Sometimesthey show us the stamp on the base of the explains that the god was made in such a yearin the reign of such and such a king. But thoughthey know the year when the idol was made, theydo not know the day. Perhaps they will call attention to the way theidol was made. It may be a molten image, likethe golden calf of Israel, — cast from molten metalsin a mold of clay; or like the cherubim of Solomonstemple, it may have been beaten out of a single pieceof metal. All this shows that they know
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