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XLIX 你兒兒 請 肉 豆 篩篩 了吃吃 兒兒 熟愛愛 羅羅 子伯叔 打曳 麥你你 伯 NOTES These words are not heard within the walls of Peking, but in the country. 羅 兒 luo2'r a silt to bolt flour. 曳 ye4, to drag, to pull, to shake. 伯 read by the peasants not puo2 but pai1, one's father's elder brother. This character is read also pai3, in the word 大伯子 ta4 pai3 tzu, title given to a man by his younger brother's wife. 叔 shu2 read here shou2, as the peasants do. One's father's younger brother.
TRANSLATION
Beating the sieve sift！—shaking the sieve sift ！ — when the wheat is ripe, we will invite your uncle — your elder uncle likes to eat meat — your younger uncle likes to eat beans.
