. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . Each day she came and satOn her queer little bamboo mat. THE LITTLE BROTHER OF LOO-LEE LOO 145 l And I hope she carried a doll or two, but Icant l>c sure of that !)She watched the fountain toss,d she gazed the bridge across,And she worked a bit of embroidery fine witha thread of silken LOO-LEE LOO AND LITTLE FING-WEE. She touched her wee guitar,The gift of her prince-papa,And she hummed a queer little Chinese tunewith a Chinese tra-la-la !It was all that she had to doTo keep her from feeling blue,For terribly lon
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . Each day she came and satOn her queer little bamboo mat. THE LITTLE BROTHER OF LOO-LEE LOO 145 l And I hope she carried a doll or two, but Icant l>c sure of that !)She watched the fountain toss,d she gazed the bridge across,And she worked a bit of embroidery fine witha thread of silken LOO-LEE LOO AND LITTLE FING-WEE. She touched her wee guitar,The gift of her prince-papa,And she hummed a queer little Chinese tunewith a Chinese tra-la-la !It was all that she had to doTo keep her from feeling blue,For terribly lonely and dull sometimes was poorfittle Loo-lee Loo. Her father had kites to flyFar up in the free blue sky(For a Chinaman loves with this elegant sporthis leisure to occupy) ;And what with his drums and gongs,And his numerous loud ding-dongs,He could have any day, in a princely way, aregular Fourth of July. Her mother, the fair Su-See,Was as busy as she could be, Though she never went out, except, perhaps, toa neighboring afternoon tea;She was young herself, as yet,And the minutes that she could getShe spent in studying up the rules of ElegantEtiquette. So the princess nibbled her plums,And twirled her dear little thumbs,And lent sometimes a wistful ear to the beatingof distant drums;Until one April day—Tsing Ming, as they would say-She saw at the gate a si
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