Identifier: achuotherstories00ande (find matches)
Title: A'Chu and other stories
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Anderson, Emma Maria (Thompson), Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., Review & Herald publishing assn.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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HOUSE-BOAT BOYS HAVING THEIR PICTURE TAKEN they go ashore to purchase necessities for their simplemode of life. The river before our house is fringed with a borderof house-boats and sampans at all times of day, andmore deeply bordered at night. The inhabitants ofthese boats are our nearest neighbors on the water-ward side of the street, and very interesting neighborsthey are.
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© U. & U., N. Y. HABBOR OF CANTON — JUNKS IN THE OFFING118 Canton from Day to Day 119 Just below the landing place in front lies a small,dirty boat tied up to a long pole thrust into a spotof sandy beach. That is a local ferry. The womansits under a broad bamboo hat, balancing the boatwith the big oar at therear as her passengers step in.When the boat is full, she will pull up the pole, dragin the chain, and scull across to the other side. Eachpassenger will pay five cash, equal to about one fourthof an American cent, for his passage. A house-boat next the wharf is fairly alive withchildren climbing over its top and sides and hangingover the deck. One expects to see a tot tumble intothe water at any moment. In this place the boats lieso closely together that one wonders if, should a childfall in, there would be room for it to rise again tothe surface. One tiny maiden with freshly plaited hairtied with a quantity of pink cord, wears a wooden floatdangling on her back as a precau

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