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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Oh! you'll soon warm up. Come, hurry and dress! It's no end of fun studying water-snails and egg-boats gnats' funny egg-boats under a microscope, with the Scoutmaster," encouraged Tomoke, in everyday life Ina Atwood, blue as her lightning namesake, and rather hankering after the warmth of her pine-knot torch.
From the shape of these boats, resembling somewhat the half of an egg cut lengthwise, they are called in the Chinese language "egg-boats." A large family will sometimes pack itself into an egg-boat not much more than twelve feet long and six broad. These river-folk have characteristics which almost render them a people apart.
Possibly one cause for this may be that which some humourist suggested as the reason why "birds in their little nests agree," namely, because it would be dangerous if they "fell out." But, speaking seriously, it says much for the placable nature of these Chinese river-folk that they can pass such a happy existence within the narrow bounds of their egg-boats.
"Well! if we spend any more time with the minnows, we'll have to 'cut out' the 'fresh-water sheep', the little roaches, and the insects' egg-boats," said the Scoutmaster. "Speaking of the latter, I saw a curious one yesterday upon a stagnant pool over on the other side of the lake; perhaps the visitors would be interested in it." The visitors were interested in the bare mention.
"Fancy last week we caught a huge pike which had jumped clear out of the water, on to the bank, after a water-hen!" "Where was that? How how big was it?" The girlish questions mounted helter-skelter. "The pike? Oh! he weighed about fifteen pounds. It was right over there, on the other side of the lake," pointing to the spot where the party interested in egg-boats had landed that morning.
She had not made her scout-knights return those ashen blades until the morning after the dance, when they were surreptitiously deposited upon the opposite shore of the lake in the neighborhood of the camp near the insects' egg-boats.
They have a code of laws of their own, differing in many points from that which governs the land community, and the two populations do not intermarry. Women to a large extent navigate the egg-boats, as indeed they do many other kinds of boats in China. Travellers report that these river-families live peaceable and happy enough lives, seldom disturbed by disputes of any kind.
It had once pulled her up a snow-bank to the distant rumble of an engine's explosion. Yes, and surely she had seen it again, once again, since then although, sandwiched as it now was between egg-boats and painted Tritons she could not for the moment remember where. "Fine day! Having luck?
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