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Updated: May 18, 2025
The tables were of plain wood and without table-cloths, while the luxuriously-cushioned divans of Far East imaginings were hard wooden stools. Each feaster was provided with a pair of chopsticks and two small sheets of brown paper with which to wipe them after each course.
"This is God's day, an' we'll have all we can rightly do to keep it holy without luggin' in week-day music to make us forget it. You just get t' work an' learn 'Safely Through Another Week, an' if you can't play it right you get Lizzie to teach you." Bob pouted: "There ain't nothin' wrong with chopsticks, Ma. 'Tain't got words to it." "Don't make any diffrence.
In return Nelly taught An Ching to knit, with some chopsticks, which they pointed at the ends, for needles. The children were rarely allowed to go outside the Kus' compound, and never alone, but they could play out of doors as much as they wished.
Tad was informed of Stacy's skill with chopsticks, and they could hear him laughing over it, even though they were no longer able to see him. "Are you warm enough down there?" called Ned. "Sure thing. I have most of the blankets." "That means we freeze, I guess," interjected Stacy. "You can go cut yourself a few chopsticks and sleep under them," retorted Ned Rector.
The whole appearance of the houses and temples carries one far from the mud-huts or close cities of the plains of India, into the land of chopsticks and small feet, and the traveller feels much nearer to Pekin than to Calcutta as he wanders along the empty streets under the frowning houses and indescribable temples of the Newar town of Patn.
The last dish presented was an enormous lacquer box of rice, from which all the bowls were filled the rice being thence carried to the mouth of each guest by means of chopsticks, in the use of which it is only practice that makes perfect. Between each course a long interval occurred, which was filled up with songs, music, and dancing, performed by professional singing and dancing girls.
Little Emily and Bob stood one on either side and watched her as she played, with wondering admiration, and when Betty went to help their mother Bob would sit down and try to imitate what she had done. Failing, he would fall headlong into the inevitable chopsticks, beating it out with the air of a master.
It looked as though we were simultaneously levelling revolvers at each other's heads. At a given signal the fray began. All the Chinese rose up, took their chopsticks, and plunging them into various dishes began helping us, the guests of honour. On my one small plate were quickly deposited some sweets, sour pickles, dried fruit, slices of ham, and one of the notorious eggs.
We ate with chopsticks. The Baron was greatly distraught. Very cautiously I began speaking of the offending officers and tried to justify their actions by the extremely trying circumstances under which they were living. "They are rotten through and through, demoralized, sunk into the depths," murmured the General.
She never said a word about him, but this accounts for her admiring my pretty Chinese things and being so interested in Canton." "Little Fun is a great swell now, and much enamored of our fat friend, who will take to chopsticks whenever he says the word. I needn't ask how you do, Cousin, for you beat that Aurora all hollow in the way of color.
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