. Life and light for woman . ackstone Fund, this mission now has a tent, andthey are concentrating evangelistic forces on one village at atime for ten days or so. Just then they were at Yenchiao, asmall but busy market town somenine or ten miles east of Tung-chow. Miss Alice Huggins tookme out. The walk was cold anddusty, but on the whole mostinteresting and enjoyable. It wasmy first experience of crossing aChinese ferry, which was a flatboat, perhaps six by twenty feet insize, propelled by two men withlong poles. The boat sidled up to amud wharf, two boards were putdown, the horses and donkey
. Life and light for woman . ackstone Fund, this mission now has a tent, andthey are concentrating evangelistic forces on one village at atime for ten days or so. Just then they were at Yenchiao, asmall but busy market town somenine or ten miles east of Tung-chow. Miss Alice Huggins tookme out. The walk was cold anddusty, but on the whole mostinteresting and enjoyable. It wasmy first experience of crossing aChinese ferry, which was a flatboat, perhaps six by twenty feet insize, propelled by two men withlong poles. The boat sidled up to amud wharf, two boards were putdown, the horses and donkeys wereunhitched, and all the availableman-power was used to haul thecarts on, and to beat, cajole anddrag the donkeys after them. I never could quite see why donkeys have such a constitutionalobjection to doing anything that is wanted of them. On the way home I started to ride, perched on top of my mat-tress and other bedding, but thedonkey was so hopelessly slowand balky that finally, when he slipped in a mud puddle and sat. The Balky Beast 1921] A First View of Country Life in China 83 down under me, I decided to walk, and even so, I had to urge themen and donkey to keep up with me. On the ferry one paid theequivalent of half a cent for three people and a beast. All alongthe way practically every other donkey boy we passed and manyother travelers asked our man who we were and where we, weregoing, and many others commented on these strange foreignerswho hired a donkey and then walked! Each little village as wepassed through was interesting: with the road worn deep into thesoil, with the mud walls to houses and courtyards, with the devil-screen, a short wall, in front of every gate. The second river wehad to cross was spanned by a bridge the like of which I neverdreamed. One cart wide it was, so we had to wait some timefor several heavy carts, drawn by anything up to six animals,horses, mules, donkeys or all together, to pass. The foundationwas a few tree trunks, across which w
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