Our Little Eskimo Cousin

y, or you won't see it before it p

Chin calling she put them down and came out on the platform where her

ird with a shining coat of green feathers and a red tuft on his head. He must have lo

said Chin, "is

eautiful boat moving r

ered. "Do you see him there under the

ut don't talk; I j

ed head, with its fierce eyes, could be seen reaching out from the high bow. The stern was made in the shape of the monster's tail.

plendid boat, and they must have had great tra

. "It is made of cloth-of-gold, and so are the curtains. Look at the gold embroidery on the king's coa

old me that he visited strange lands where all the people have skins as white as pearls, and that he has seen many

downward on the platform until it had passed down the river

id so in one way only. They crawled. Even his own little childre

he has learned the ways of other countries. When he was a little boy, an English lady was h

s that he is the best ruler

umbrellas, many stories high. There was also a huge jewelled

but they were smaller and less beautiful. They wer

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ng from distant lands, while here and there Chinese junks were scattered along the shores. Chin

y he had the eye there, answered

t is no wonder that Chin and his si

t into the house and brought out her family of dolls. Of course

s of Chie Lo's white cousins. The father and mother dolls were dressed in strips of cloth wound around their bodies,

y were eating, just as other little girls play, far away across the great ocean. Then s

e different from those of our country. She simply touched the dolls' noses with her own little flat one a

sister playing with her dolls, and as for the kissing,

he said, as he stopped working for a minute. He was making a

they, Chin?" a

buy them, for they cost a great deal. I wish I could get

did you s

illed with sailors, and lovely ivory furniture for

r. It looked like her own home,-it stood on a bamboo platform, it had a high, slanting roof, covered with palm

ile. "But I am happy here with my own toys. I must row up the river to-mo

ir mother. "Chin, take this jug and ge

led it by reaching over the platform, and follo

re no tumblers nor cups. Chin had made small dishes for his mother by cutting cocoanuts in halves an

a palm leaf into the shape of a funnel and received the water th

e falling, and a gentle breeze came floating down the river. The terri

also a sort of stew made of meat chopped very fine and seasoned w

burnt; give me a dri

ught it very nice indeed

said Chin's mother. "I bought it t

n cousins to see not only houses but stores moving past them down the river. The sto

e bought most of the vegetables already cooked from the floating sto

anas to roast in the hot coals, and these were now taken out and

hink. But they never drink it. The cows of Siam are not milked at all, and so the

eature. Although it was a grown-up cat, yet its eyes were as blue as those of a week-old American kitten. It had a funny