StNicholas [serial] . l in house-boats on the river and insedan-chairs when we travel overland. The sedan-chairmencan travel about two and a half miles an hour, or aboutthirty miles a day. Traveling up river in a house-boat is very slow has plenty of time to enjoy the scenery. The boatis pulled by men called trackers. There is alongbam-boo hawser fastened to the mast and the men pull theboat with the rope or hawser. There are from fifty to ahundred men on the boats, according to their sizes. TheYangtze River has many bad rapids and many boats arewrecked in them. Going down river a boa
StNicholas [serial] . l in house-boats on the river and insedan-chairs when we travel overland. The sedan-chairmencan travel about two and a half miles an hour, or aboutthirty miles a day. Traveling up river in a house-boat is very slow has plenty of time to enjoy the scenery. The boatis pulled by men called trackers. There is alongbam-boo hawser fastened to the mast and the men pull theboat with the rope or hawser. There are from fifty to ahundred men on the boats, according to their sizes. TheYangtze River has many bad rapids and many boats arewrecked in them. Going down river a boat can travel much faster as themen row with long oars. We have lived in China all of our lives except twoyears while we were on furlough in America. In spring we have fine times flying kites. The Chinesehave many different kinds of kites. They are made in to shapesof butterflies, dragons, birds, and scores of other kinds. We have never had a kite that did nt fly. They aremade of thin bamboo ribs and covered with tough. ST. NICHOLAS IN CHINA. tissue paper, and they always fly well. Some kites are solarge that they take several men to hold them. The menseem to enjoy flying kites as much as the your West China readers, The Peat boy-friends of St. Nicholas also sent a photo-graph, which we gladly reproduce here, showing their en-joyment of a just-arrived number of the magazine intheir distant home —half-way round the world. Other interesting letters which lack of space prevents ourprinting have been received from Kathryn King, HazelBenvie, Doris Babcock, Lela Schuster, Minnie Foster,Marion Chapin, Stillman Jenks, Amelie Ervin, MollieGalloway, Alice A. Hog, Virginia Duncan, Margaret , Elsie Hun, Napier Edwards, Mary Craig, HelenV. Merwin, Elsie Ault, Beatrice Easterday, Helen , Helen W. Balfe, Beatrice Bloch, Edwin W. Mills,Esther Iris Hull, Ruth Knapp, Constance H. Smith.
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