Shans at home . at a game which is not unhke theEnglish one of Queens Chair, but Shans call it Riding on Horseback. Two boys grasp each otherswrists; the third boy does not sit upon their hands ason a chair, but astride as on a girls have busy and happylives. They have their own workto do—fetching water, washing theclothes, cooking, spinning, and weav-ing. They also help their parentsin different trades—modelling andbaking pots, sewing bamboo hats,boiling and pounding bark for paper,rolling tobacco into long are not hard-worked; no oneis very rich, and no one^need bepo
Shans at home . at a game which is not unhke theEnglish one of Queens Chair, but Shans call it Riding on Horseback. Two boys grasp each otherswrists; the third boy does not sit upon their hands ason a chair, but astride as on a girls have busy and happylives. They have their own workto do—fetching water, washing theclothes, cooking, spinning, and weav-ing. They also help their parentsin different trades—modelling andbaking pots, sewing bamboo hats,boiling and pounding bark for paper,rolling tobacco into long are not hard-worked; no oneis very rich, and no one^need bepoor. Wealth counts for nothing in the socialposition of men or women; pretty clothes are con-sidered the correct attire for a child or a young girl,but no girl is ever ashamed of a friend because herdress is shabby. If a girl goes without a new jacketand gown at festival times, and dresses herself in fadedgarments, she joins her friends quite sure that theirwelcome will be as hearty as if her clothes had been. 62 BOYS AND GIRLS new and fine. There is no respect paid to moneyor dress by Shans, who live far from what we call civilisation. Girls cannot read or write, but they know a greatmany of the Buddhist Scriptures by heart; the menand boys of the family repeat them aloud in theevenings, so girls learn them from constantly hear-ing them recited. Before the big festivals girls have great fun cookingpaddy to make a kind of pop-corn. The paddy isshaken in an empty pot over the fire, and when theears are hot they pop and jump in the liveliestfashion. The rice bursts out of the chaff, turning intodelightful Httle balls of the purest white, excellentto eat. When girls wish to take an offering of foodto the monks they very often make the poppedrice. They carry it to the monastery in a scarletbasket, with a bunch of flowers and a bottle withwater. The rice is given to the monks; the flowersare placed in one of the vases near the door of theimage-house ; the water already in the vas
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