The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 166
alled for lights,And he called for the Book of Rites,And all of the classical literature that he lovedto read o nights ; A son, he thoughtfully said,To serve me with rice and bread;To burn the paper above my grave and honormy aged head !Oh, try me the tortoise signWith a tortoise of ancient line:If… … THE TORTOISE TEST. And he read till the dawn of dayIn his very remarkable way,From end to beginning, from bottom to top, asonly a Chinaman may. My father adopted a son,His father the same had done;Some thousands of years ago, it appears, thecustom was thus begun.He stopped for a pinch of snuff;His…
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