. A'Chu and other stories. egetable seed, and with a ladle are pressedagainst the inside walls of the oven. When theyhave become brown, a slide is pushed in to coverthe charcoal, and the baking goes on till the bunsare thoroughly done, when they cleave from the oven,and falling on this slide, are drawn out. These havea crisp crust, and, flavored as they are with the brownseeds, make a palatable bread. The MohammedanChinese, who detest swines flesh, use them freely, sincethey are certain to contain none of this fat. A WHEELBARROW TRAIN While watching the work at the mill, I was star-tled by a d
. A'Chu and other stories. egetable seed, and with a ladle are pressedagainst the inside walls of the oven. When theyhave become brown, a slide is pushed in to coverthe charcoal, and the baking goes on till the bunsare thoroughly done, when they cleave from the oven,and falling on this slide, are drawn out. These havea crisp crust, and, flavored as they are with the brownseeds, make a palatable bread. The MohammedanChinese, who detest swines flesh, use them freely, sincethey are certain to contain none of this fat. A WHEELBARROW TRAIN While watching the work at the mill, I was star-tled by a dreadful groaning, screeching sound in the One Hour in a Native Village 149 direction of the opposite gate. Surely, I thought,something dreadful has happened. No, it was onlythe noise of an incoming train on the main wheel-barrow line from Hankow, which follows the track ofthis paved street through the village. Some fifteenwheelbarrows, with broad frames piled high with boltsof cotton cloth and other articles of trade, were. STRINGS OF CHINESE CASH PIECES The cash is the common current coin of China. It isabout as large as our twenty-five-cent piece, with a squarehole in the center for stringing. pushed past us and out the gate toward the near-bycity. At the side of the train was a line of menand boys carrying strings of cash pieces over theirshoulders and around their necks. It looked like a heap o money to be carried about openly in thatway, but we soon learned that twenty of those cashpieces were worth but one United States cent. The 150 AGhu and Other Stories stone pavement has been cut into a deep furrow inthe middle of the street by the passing of theseloaded wheelbarrow trains. WAITING TO KNOW THE WAY One more call was made, at the home of a womanwho often comes to the mission to listen to thesinging, she says. In this way she has heard someChristian teaching. It is not known that she isseeking to know the Saviour, but only that she comesalmost constantly when the service
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