He writes
toward the bottom of the sheet. He puts one word under another instead
of beside it as you do. Then he begins a new line at the top, and
writes to the bottom again.
[Illustration: Chinese writing.]
Chinese books are printed in the same way. Where do you think a
Chinese book begins? A Chinese book begins where our books end.
In China many girls and women have very small feet. When they are
babies their feet are bound up tightly. They sometimes wear iron
shoes. Then their feet never grow, but are so very small that they
can hardly walk. Poor parents know their girls will have to work hard,
and so do not bind their feet.
Chinese girls make beautiful paper flowers. They paint pictures. They
sing and play. Some of them pick the snow-white cotton in the fields.
Some of them take care of the silk-worms that spin the soft silk.
But they do not work all the time. They play many pretty games.
Chinese boys, too, have many kinds of games and toys. One game is
like battledoor and shuttlecock. They use their feet to strike the
shuttlecock. They do this so fast that the shuttlecock hardly ever
falls to the ground. The Chinese are fond of flying kites.
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