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#0088: Ho-Ming: Girl of New China, by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Ho-ming: Girl of New China
by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
"Ih, er, san, si, wu, luh, chi, bah, diju, shi" -- numbers 1-10 in Chinese
p.17 Well, the roof above her was tilted and each corner turned upward that demons bent on mischief might find no footing thereon.
hsien = country
"I have the fidelity of the dog and I am treated like one."
--Confucius
"C'heo si la!" Chinese: "Ugly unto death!"
NAMES: Lao Po-po, Ho-ming, sng, Mei-li, Li, Shui-niu, Je-je