Identifier: ouryoungfolksser8112trow (find matches)
Title: Our young folks (serial)
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916 Hamilton, Gail, 1833-1896 Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
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Publisher: (Boston : Ticknor and Fields)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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yaltiger. This done, she was shut up in the dungeon, where the Governess, bybribing the jailers, managed to visit her unhappy pupil. The entrance to the cell was by a trap-door and a ladder. Only onesmall grated window let a little light into the place, showing the muddyfloor, the damp walls covered with moss and mould and hideous designsmeant to represent hunger, terror, and despair, and the bedstead of roughboards on which lay the prisoner, chained, with only an image of her godto console her. The Governess brought her better comfort, and, by inter-ceding afterwards with the prime minister, succeeded in effecting the poorwomans release.* The royal children stood in terror of the whims and passions of their * See The English Governess at the Court of Siam ; and also Mrs. Leonowenss new book,The Romance of the Harem, which is full of the most curious and interesting information con-cerning royal domestic life in Siam. Just published by J. R. Osgood & Co. i872.) Scenes in Siam. 725
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Siamese Flower-Girl. own father; they dreaded his frowns, they cringed for his smiles, theylearned to flatter and deceive him. But children in Siam, children even of the king, are like children every- J26 Scenes in Siam. (December, where else : they love play, and must be amused. Siamese girls have dollsto dress and undress and put to bed ; boys have toy boats, and floatinghouses with little toy families occupying them, all true to the life. As theceremony of hair-cutting for the young princes is a very important andmagnificent one, the children imitate it in their play, and cut the hair oftheir dolls with great solemnity. Kite-flying, here as in China, is a favorite sport with all classes. Atthe season when the south-wind prevails, innumerable kites of diverseforms, many of them representing gigantic butterflies, may be seen sailingand darting over every quarter of the city, and most thickly over the palaceand its appendages. Parties of young noblemen devote themselves withardor to t

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