This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...his own palm. Just now he was sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor, with a pan of potatoes between his feet which he was paring for supper. "Well, what are you after?" said he, rather inhospitably, as the shadows darkened the doorway. Sometimes visitors of this sort averaged thirty or forty a day, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...his own palm. Just now he was sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor, with a pan of potatoes between his feet which he was paring for supper. "Well, what are you after?" said he, rather inhospitably, as the shadows darkened the doorway. Sometimes visitors of this sort averaged thirty or forty a day, and Yung Kyoo had not yet acquired the patience of age. Sim Ssi advanced into the room, and crouching down beside the boy, put her hand on his arm in a manner which she meant to be confidenceinspiring. "Say, boy," said she, "tell us what they are like." "Who?" asked Yung Kyoo, shortly. "You know. These foreign people that you work for." "Just like the rest of us." "Are they, now? Are they like the rest of us?" "Well, no," admitted Yung Kyoo, slowly; "they're not just like the rest of us. I've been with them for several months now, and I've never seen him strike her once, and if she yokhows scolds him, it's when they're by themselves. I've never heard her. And they always tell the truth, too--not even little lies." Silence reigned for a moment, and then old Sim Ssi asked: "What are they here for? To better themselves some way, of course, but how?" "They are here to teach a new doctrine." "A new doctrine! What doctrine have they got that is any better than the ones we have?" "I don't know all about it myself. I'm not doing it yet, but I'm going to by and by when I get old. It's about somebody that they call Jesus. They say he 'saves' them, and they seem to get a lot of comfort out of it." "Well, I'm not after comfort," said the old woman, decidedly. "I can get all I want for myself." She straightened...
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