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BLOCK GAMES—KINDERGARTEN

Then he turned over to two on opposite pages, and as he constructed them he repeated in turn:

In a stream ten thousand li in length
He bathes his feet at night,

While on a mount he waves his arms,
Ten thousand feet in height.

The ten thousand li in one couplet corresponds to the ten thousand feet in the other, while the bathing of the feet corresponds to the waving of the arms. Couplets of this kind are always attractive to the Chinese child as well as to the scholar, and poems and essays are replete with such constructions.

The child enjoyed making the pictures. I tried to make one, but found it very difficult. I was not familiar with the blocks. It is different now, I have learned how to make them. Then it seemed as if it would be impossible ever to do so. When I had failed to make the picture I turned them over to him. In a moment it was done.

"Who is it?" I asked.

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