. A'Chu and other stories. TELLING FOKTINFR BY THE PALM always wore good clothes. No one knew exactlywhere he got them, though it was suspected they wereborrowed. That he was less than half well fedwas plainly to be seen in the gauntness of his thinbody. Mrs. Chang and Fung Mui were always busywith the mats. Once I said to the girl, We have afine group of young girls like you in our girls202 The Game Won at Last 203 school. Would you like to go to school and learnto read ? Yes, indeed, she replied. I have heard themsing, too. You can come to our school without pay. Schoolbegins next week. Will
. A'Chu and other stories. TELLING FOKTINFR BY THE PALM always wore good clothes. No one knew exactlywhere he got them, though it was suspected they wereborrowed. That he was less than half well fedwas plainly to be seen in the gauntness of his thinbody. Mrs. Chang and Fung Mui were always busywith the mats. Once I said to the girl, We have afine group of young girls like you in our girls202 The Game Won at Last 203 school. Would you like to go to school and learnto read ? Yes, indeed, she replied. I have heard themsing, too. You can come to our school without pay. Schoolbegins next week. Will you come? I have no clothes for school, she said. But, Fung Mui, if you wish to go to school,dont stop to think about clothes. Many of the girls. (URLS IX A MISSION SCHOOL come in very plain clothes. I will help you getgarments fit for school. Mother is poor. I must help earn money, shesaid sweetly. AChu must read books. Sometime hewill go to school, she added unselfishly. Some time later the baby brother came, and every-thing else was forgotten in the childrens effort to 204 AChu and Other Stories get on without eating in order that there might befood for those who must have it. A very confidential friendship had sprung up be-tween the gamblers son and my own boy, who wasabout two years the older. AChu rarely went tomarket but that he stopped at the gate to talk overhis business with the foreign boy, as he called ouryoung American. Not only was there lack of food in the Changfamily, but there was not a scrap of cloth in thehouse to make clothes for the little stranger — onlyan old blue cotton garment to wrap it in. Winterwas coming. It was amusing to hear the two boysplan what might be made of stockings with worn-outfeet, sk
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