. A'Chu and other stories. , she explained. A neighbor was called. He put into motion the long,sweeping scull in the rear. The women in front dippedtheir oSrs, and the boat began to slip out from betweenits companions. Beg your pardon, may we pass? called the head-woman to her seniors. Step aside, she said to thoseof her own age, and Thank you, as we passed. Theseboat people certainly have learned that people may livevery close together and get on smoothly if they will bepleasant and courteous to one another. The tide was going out swiftly, but with two womenrowing and a man at the scull in th
. A'Chu and other stories. , she explained. A neighbor was called. He put into motion the long,sweeping scull in the rear. The women in front dippedtheir oSrs, and the boat began to slip out from betweenits companions. Beg your pardon, may we pass? called the head-woman to her seniors. Step aside, she said to thoseof her own age, and Thank you, as we passed. Theseboat people certainly have learned that people may livevery close together and get on smoothly if they will bepleasant and courteous to one another. The tide was going out swiftly, but with two womenrowing and a man at the scull in the stern, we made Journey in a House-Boat 99 good progress. The house-boat rocked steadily upstreamwhile we sat comfortably sheltered by its arching this early hour most of the house-boats still lay attheir mooring. We passed close to the stern of a largeboat where the family were at breakfast. In hot weatherthe morning meal is taken later in the day, but in coolweather an early hot breakfast helps to warm the sampan. RIVER FRONT NEAR CHANGSHA MISSION family. Whiffs of cooked salt fish and the odor of saltvegetables, pickled after the manner of sauerkraut, wasin the air. So fragrant! Certainly a good flavor, remarkedAHo. I suspect she was thinking quite as much of theradish stew with fish waiting in her own kitchen, as ofthe salt fish and sauerkraut in the big boat. The hardest place in the river had been reached. Itis at this turn that the large American hospital and thetall medical college loom above their Chinese water swirls in making the bend. When the tide 100 AGhu and Other Stories goes out the strongest, the current eddies and is swift. A loud, hoarse whistle broke from downstream. The steamboat! I exclaimed. We cannot getthere in time! Fire-boat is coming. That is certain, repeated thehead boatwoman. A scared look came into her face asshe repeated over again, Certainly coming. She re-membered that if she did not reach the wharf in time,her passenger
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