How would you like to hear about a village whose business—real solemn, serious, money-getting business is to make mud pies? Most yes. This isn't going to be one of those make-believes where you wake up at the last minute and find it was only a dream after all. We really did go to such a village and here is a fat black and white eat we bought for you there.
To find this wonderful place you must first of all take the train to Wusih. If you are a_ fortunate little girl and sit next the window so as not to miss anything on the trip you can watch for water buffaloes and yellow patches of mustard or the first clover. Then when we get to' Wusih and leave our luggage at the -hotel and are wondering what to do next, you will remind Daddy of the Mud Village. Then, if there is nothing else more important—and I hardly see what there could be, do you?—he will say, "Yes, certainly," and call rieshas.
EXCITING TRANSPORTATION, These are. very ramehackly ricshas and the runners go faster than they do in Shanghai, ringing their belis and bumping "you over the stones till you hold on to the sides in alarm. They whirl you into the City through a big hole in. the wall—a big wall that used to tuck in everybody quite snug, but now the town has grown so big that it has spilled out all over the country-~side, and the great smoke-stacks of the fact ick up like a new sort of pagoda.
You will dash by the Public Gardens with peach and plum blossoms waving to you as you pass, and the Cosmopolitan Hospital and the big building that looks like a New England Meeting-house and is really the public library. Yes—"they have such things in Wusih. Then you will turn into a very narrow street, so small that two ricshas have a hard time to pass each other and you are sure they ~would stick for ever if it were not for the tremendously loud shouting of the coolies.
Just as you begin to get used to your bumpety ricsha you will have} to get out, because you are coming to the street of the markets, where ricshas are not alloyed at all be—eause it is so crowded. This is a very fascinating street with all the things to eat spread out and the
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