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THE CHINESE BOY AND GIRL

toys too extensive to enumerate. There were horses, cows, camels, mules, deer, and a host of others the original of which has never been found except in the imagination of the people. He had women riding donkeys followed by drivers, men riding horses and shooting or throwing a spear at a fleeing tiger, and women with babies in their arms while grandmother amused them with rattles, and father lay near by smoking an opium pipe.

From the bottom of his basket he brought forth a number of small packages.

"What are in those?"

"These are clay insects."

They were among the best clay work we have seen in China. There were tumble-bugs, grasshoppers, large

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