Thomas Watson Houston
Published: 2015-07-02
Total Pages: 196
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Excerpt from Mey Wing: A Romance of Cathay Chao Ju lived in Tong Dsing. Around on the other side of the planet, where up is down, they have some queer customs. One of these is that when a boy is born, the father announces the joyful news by sending out hundreds of many-colored eggs to his friends. So when Chao Ju was born, the eggs were sent out at the right time. The incense of thanksgiving was burnt in the temple of Kiang Yin, the Merciful goddess to whom the incense of prayer had been offered when the mother went to her shrine to ask for a boy. The barber was called in, with his outfit carried on a pole across his shoulders, and the hair was shaved, leaving the little bald cranium with all the bumps showing, and the life-beats pulsing across the soft spot. If any of you had gone to see the baby, you would have had to take a long journey. Take the steam-ears to San Francisco, and the steamboat to the Land of Long Ago. You must not stop to get more than a glimpse of the mountains and vales and lava trenches of the Sugar Islands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.