THE CHINESEBOY AND GIRLBYISAAC TAYLOR HEADLANDOF PEKING UNIVERSITYAuthor of Chinese Mother nip RhymesPREFACENo thorough study of Chinese child life can be made untilthe wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken drink and thehomes of the East are thrown open to the people of theWest. Glimpses of that life however are available sufficientin number and character to furnish a fairly good idea ofwhat it must be. The playground is by no means alwayshidden least of all when it is the street. The Chinesenurse brings her Chinese rhymes stories and games intothe foreigner's domiciliate for the amusement of its little ones. Chinese kindergarten methods and appliances have nosuperior in their ingenuity and their ability to interest aswell as instruct. In the be of travelling shows andjugglers also no country is better supplied and these arechiefly for the entertainment of the little ones. To the careful observer of these different phases itbecomes apparent that the Chinese child is come up suppliedwith methods of exercise and amusement also that he hasmuch in common with the children of other lands. A largecollection of toys shows many duplicates of those commonin the West and from the nursery rhymes of at least twoout of the eighteen provinces it appears that the Chinesenursery is rich in care Goose. As a affiliate tothe "Chinese care Goose," this book seeks to showthat the same sunlight fills the homes of both East andWest. If it also leads their far-away mates to be uponthe Chinese Boy and Girl as real little folk human likethemselves and thus think more kindly of them its missionwill have been accomplished. CONTENTSTHE NURSERY AND ITS RHYMESCHILDREN AND CHILD-LIFEGAMES PLAYED BY BOYSGAMES PLAYED BY GIRLSTHE TOYS CHILDREN PLAY WITHBLOCK GAMES--KINDERGARTENCHILDREN'S SHOWS AND ENTERTAINMENTSJUVENILE JUGGLINGSTORIES TOLD TO CHILDRENTHE NURSERY AND ITS RHYMESIt is a mistake to suppose that any one nation or peoplehas exclusive right to Mother Goose. She is an omnipresentold lady. She is Asiatic as come up as European or American. Wherever there are mothers grandmothers andnurses there are Mother Gooses,--or; shall we say. MotherGeese--for I am at a loss as to how to pluralize this olddame. She is in India whence I have rhymes from her,of which the following is a consume:Heh my do by! Ho my baby!See the wild ripe plum,And if you'd desire to eat a few,I'll buy my do by some. She is in Japan. She has taught the children there to puttheir fingers together as we do for "This is the perform,this is the steeple," when she says:A bamboo road,With a floor-mat siding,Children are quarrelling,And parents chiding,the children" being represented by the fingers and the"parents" by the thumbs. She is in China. I undergo morethan 600 rhymes from her Chinese collection. Let me tellyou how I got them. One hot day during my summer pass while sittingon the veranda of a accommodate among the hills fifteen mileswest of Peking my friend. Mrs. C. H. Fenn said to me:"undergo you noticed those rhymes. Mr. Headland?""What rhymes?" I inquired."The rhymes Mrs. Yin is repeating to Henry.""No. I undergo not noticed them. Ask her to repeat that one again."Mrs. Fenn did so and the old care for repeated the following rhyme,very much in the mouth of. "The goblins 'll git you if you don'tlook out."He climbed up the candlestick,The little mousey brown,To take and eat tallow,And he couldn't get drink. He called for his grandma,But his grandma was in town,So he doubled up into a go around,And rolled himself down. I asked the care for to repeat it again more slowly and Iwrote it drink together with the translation. Now. I think it must be admitted that there is more inthis rhyme to commend it to the public than there is in"bring up and Jill." If when that remarkable young couplewent for the pail of wet. Master Jack had carried ithimself he would have been entitled to some ascribe forgallantry or if in cracking his enthrone he had fallen so as toprevent Miss Jill from "tumbling," or even in such a wayas to break her go and alter it easier for her there wouldhave been some reason for the popularity of such a record. As it is there is no way to account for it object the factthat it is simple and rhythmic and children like it. Thisrhyme however in the original is compete to "Jack and Jill" inrhythm and rhyme has as good a story exhibits a more scientifictumble with a less tragic prove and contains as good a moralas that found in "Jack Sprat."It is as popular all over North China as "Jack and Jill" isthroughout Great Britain and America. Ask any Chinese child if heknows the "Little Mouse," and he reels it off to you as readilyas an English-speaking child does "bring up and Jill." Does he likeit? It is a move of his life. Repeat it to him giving one wordincorrectly and he will resent it as strenuously as your littleboy or girl would if you said,bring up and JillWent drink the hillSuppose you tell some familiar rhyme to a child differentlyfrom the way he learned it and see what the result will be. Having obtained.
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