Mission Stories of Many Lands; A Book for Young People (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...what a Chinese day-school is like? Supposing we skip over to the west end of this village, and take a peep at the boys' school. The village lends us its schoolhouse, and we missionaries furnish a good Christian teacher, and they study Christian books for part of the time. As we go up the front steps, what is all this fearful racket? Do you feel a little delicate about going in lest you should intrude on a quarrel of some sort? O, but you need n't The little boys in our school are not tearing each others' hair, nor scratching each others' eyes out, nor knocking each other down; not a bit of it They are just doing what every good little scholar in China is expected to do; that is, every mother's son of them is studying his lesson over out loud. By out loud I mean in a perfect roar. As they do this nearly all day long, a good many of them quite ruin their voices. When you hear them trying to sing together it reminds you of that other little frog-class which sings every evening out on the village moat, the last thing before popping in for the night. You think little scholars who have to work like that must be sorry when they hear the nine-o'clock bell and glad when it creeps around to four in the afternoon? But there you 've made another big mistake. O, lively American chicks, who wriggle and squirm in Sundayschool and day-school, and hate being caged up anywhere as badly as the wild birds do, what would yon say if you had to go to school with the first streak of daylight, and if school kept till dark If the Chinese scholars ease up life somewhat by not studying hard all the time, who can blame them? But if you think our little long-queued friends don't know much, we will set them to reciting, and I suspect you Ml be amazed to hear even the wee ones reel off...