. A'Chu and other stories. deup and again became a rice sieve. Their teacher wasas quickly transformed into the farmer. Come, children, he would call gayly, we mustwork the harder to make up for the time we havespent in reading. All hands move swiftly. The children flew to their work with the sameeager spirit they had shown in their study. Nimble School Around a Rice Sieve 343 fingers gathered out chaff and cockle and shriveled ker-nels of unripened grain from among the plump, whitekernels shaken out on the broad bottom of the they tossed into a hamper at the side. But theclean, pi
. A'Chu and other stories. deup and again became a rice sieve. Their teacher wasas quickly transformed into the farmer. Come, children, he would call gayly, we mustwork the harder to make up for the time we havespent in reading. All hands move swiftly. The children flew to their work with the sameeager spirit they had shown in their study. Nimble School Around a Rice Sieve 343 fingers gathered out chaff and cockle and shriveled ker-nels of unripened grain from among the plump, whitekernels shaken out on the broad bottom of the they tossed into a hamper at the side. But theclean, picked rice was poured into strong sacks to bestored for market. These village people were too poor to spare thechildren from work during the daytime. They weretoo poor to support a school, or even to buy desks andbooks. But their, earnestness and zeal made up the lackof these things. Only in eternity shall we be able to know the in-fluence of that one Bible in the hands of a faithfulfarmer in his school around a rice II ? 1 1 Ill- Ill- Ill Ill. riiMtidjitiiutiiM n iiiimni mi ii juriiiinmirii in initi m m nn ?> linn i iriiiiMiiriitiniiniiiiri it n i iriif ? in tniiiif mtinif m iiiitni tin ? it luiiilliiiiiiiin ,.,- ,.mm .1. ii;- ii mi nun niiiMii ! uiiiiimiimmh
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