This basket is round and long, and open at the top and bottom. They
put their heads through this basket, and it hangs downward from their
shoulders around their bodies. Then they put their clothes over it, so
that the basket is inside. It is next to their skin. How would you
like to have such a summer dress?
The boys in Korea go to school when they are very young. The girls do
not go to school. They stay at home to help their mothers. But girls
whose parents are rich have teachers at home to teach them reading and
writing and other things.
In school, the teacher sits on a straw mat on the floor. The boys also
sit on the floor on straw mats. They say their lessons out loud. They
write their lines from the top to the bottom of the page. The people
in China and Japan, as you know, write in the same way. The boys of
Korea learn to count on a _chon-pan_. The chon-pan is much like the
counting box they have in the schools in China. It is made of little
balls on a frame of wires fixed in a box. The boys also learn by heart
the wise sayings of great men.
The boys in Korea have some very nice toys. But the best playthings
they have are their kites. They make their kites fight battles in the
air, just as the boys do in Japan.
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