Identifier: cu31924023077252 (find matches)
Title: Shans at home
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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full of terrors for little people. There are notonly leopards and bears and tigers, but also spirits,both good and bad. Some trees are well known asspirit trees. If, when there is no wind, one branch ofa tree shakes its leaves, while the leaves on the restof the tree are still, then the boys are certain that aspirit is moving in the tree. Every boy has heardof ogres, terrible monsters, with curly black hairand long sharp teeth, who live on human flesh ; andthere are tales of a great white tiger, the ancestorof the Shan race. No one has seen him, but hesometimes passes through the country, followed byfifty ghostly leopards. They leave no footprints, but,when they sharpen their claws on the trees, the marksmay be seen where they have scored the bark. It isnot surprising that the real and unreal dangers of thejungle make the children herd their cattle in company. A small boy generally eats the first meal of theday about eight oclock. His breakfast consists of See illustration at p. 156.
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CHILDRENS FOOD 45 plenty of rice and a little curry made of vegetables,with perhaps a very little meat. Before he starts forthe jungle his mother prepares his second meal. Shetakes two pieces of banana leaf: in one she puts curry,and in the other rice—the curry and rice are nevermixed in the leaves—and ties a strip of green stem,torn from a bamboo, round them. Sometimes she hasno curry to give to her little son, but the boy goescontentedly to his herding with his packet of plainrice. A Shan boy eats rice as an English boy eatsbread; it is his staff of life. He never seesbread of any kind, as flour is a rare commodity inthe market. Shan children never have the pro-tuberant stomachs of other Eastern races. Perhapsthe reason is that they eat at least three times inthe day. Their meals are not as large as those ofpeople who only eat twice, also they eat rice that iswell cooked and soft. Children learn to eat veryneatly with their fingers. Sometimes they use chop-sticks,^ but more ofte

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