. St. Nicholas [serial] . rful event; andsoon the people came in multitudes to see the Dumpling thought they looked very funnywith their smooth-shaved heads and long pig-tails of hair hanging down their backs. Andtheir eyes, too, were queer, running up at thecorners. And they wore strange shoes andstrange clothes. It all looked very funny tohim. When he smiled at them the peopleshouted in their joy; for they thought it a signof his great favor, and that he would bringthem much happiness and glory. Now therewould be no more troubles, since the Childof the Sun had come to rule over them. ButDump
. St. Nicholas [serial] . rful event; andsoon the people came in multitudes to see the Dumpling thought they looked very funnywith their smooth-shaved heads and long pig-tails of hair hanging down their backs. Andtheir eyes, too, were queer, running up at thecorners. And they wore strange shoes andstrange clothes. It all looked very funny tohim. When he smiled at them the peopleshouted in their joy; for they thought it a signof his great favor, and that he would bringthem much happiness and glory. Now therewould be no more troubles, since the Childof the Sun had come to rule over them. ButDumpling soon grew tired of it all. He did ntwant to rule ; he wanted to go home. He toldthem so. But, alas for him! they did nt un-derstand, and only bowed down the more when 1124 DUMPLING S WONDERFUL VOYAGE. [Oct. he spoke to them. But they brought him said to himself, Well, it s surely very muchmany good things to eat, and so Dumpling better than living on a cloud, anyway. , For the first few days he enioved him- r- /:». self, seeing the strange things, the beau-tiful palaces, and the flowery guard of soldiers always carried himabout; and since they could nt under-stand him, he made signs when he wantedanything, and everybody ran to waitupon him. But after a while he grewvery homesick and could think of noway to get back to his own village, for heknew it must be very far off. Had henot learned at school that China was onthe other side of the world? And hewas in despair. He begged to be taken home, but noone could tell what he wanted. Theytried to guess. They brought him food,drink, then music and rich presents. Butthey never guessed the right thing. Poor Dumpling would sit for days won-dering how he should get home, but hecould think of no way. At last he saidto himself, Since I came on a cloud,
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