Show edited ill EDMONDS A GARDEN TO MAKE color the flower cut them out in bunches they ar drawn and panto TALES OF CHINA china Is an old and curious faraway and all the way round on the other ide world from us when its day time la america its night time tn china even the things they do seem topsy to us tor in china boys wear skirts and little girls war trousers tra users and in china instead of shaking hands with your friend you just shake hands with yourself but theres one way in which clil nese boys and earls are like boys and girls all over the world they love stories as much as the rest of us in china theres an old book ahr mandarin illmer Irl mer and in it are man odd and interesting stories about a chinese hero the very smart icoy ills name Is long and hard to them th fence then mount the whole picture on cardboard and you will have a pretty picture tor your room say so for short well call him wang here are two stories that chinese children like best to read from their primer ta t one day achl who was a rather fool ish boy climbed up and leaned over the edge of a bis water jar to look in he lost his balance and instead of looking in he fell in with a great ker splash t no grown person was nearby to rescue him wang the very smart boy was there however he did some very quick thinking wang tall enough or strong enough to fish achl out he even push the great heavy jar over to spill out both achl and the water so instead he ran fast for a rock bang bang 1 smash I 1 he pounded away on the jar with hta stone broke a hole in it and let out all the water that was the way the very smart boy saved achl from drowning tale 11 the people of a certain village had a large fine elephant he was such a splendid creature that they decided to weigh him then it was jound that no where in the land were there any scales large enough to weigh an elephant the grocer had scales that could weigh a few pounds of bamboo sprouts or rice or tea the jeweler bad scales that could weigh delicate things like a pinch of gold dust or a fine jewel but as tor weighing an elephant hal aal yal nobody had any scales at all for any such thing as abatt then wang the very smart boy came along and said he knew how to weigh buckaloo Nuck aloo the big elephant this Is the way he did it wang very politely asked the owners of the bon arable elephant to escort buckaloo Nuck aloo down to the river and put him aboard a boat when after much bluffing and puffing and grunting and pushing this was done wang got into another boat paddled along side and with a piece of chalk made a white mark all the way around nuck alcoa boat showing how high the water had come up on the sides of it then the e 1 e was unloaded and the boit was filled with rocks until the water came right up to bangs wangs chalk mark on the side that showed that there was as much weight of rocks in the boat as there had been weight of elephant in the boat one aby one the rocks were carried ashore and weighed on the little scales that belonged to the grocery roan when every rock had been weighed and the whole list of them added up the total awas the weight of buckaloo Nuck aloo the big elephant now wang a rather smart boy alice allson lids ua 1 ft fuini fu iii hippy xu n ati fr alf hi i f foi lita fc tf I 1 ud jf ff y loa arf 1 frej fady IT tatu almai tura tut a ran troa ta y J t si ciu tat ci C i |