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Updated: June 12, 2025
There were also cells and sleeping-rooms for the monks, servants' quarters, stables, a huge kitchen, and an immense dining-room, together with a large guest-hall and a nunnery. In addition there were several buildings devoted to the care of the aged, the infirm, and the sick. All these places, during his stay, Yung Pak visited in company with Wang Ken and guided by one of the monks.
All the time there was a tremendous beating of drums and blowing of horns and ringing of bells. The noise was so great that Kim Yong hardly heard Yung Pak when he shouted: "Oh, I see papa!" "Where is he?" "Don't you see him right behind that little man in yellow who is carrying a big blue flag?" "Oh, yes," said Kim Yong. "He has on a long green robe, and on his turban are long orange plumes."
Pak!" the Obo Bird dove under the covers at the side of the bed and pinched the small boy who would not get up. Then, "Now it's my turn, daddo!" from the other son. The Submarine Obo Bird lived in Alaska and ate Spooka biscuits. There was just developing a wee Obo Bird, that made less vehement "paks!" and pinched less agitatedly a special June-Bug Obo Bird.
When Ki Pak made one of these trips through the country he could not ride on the cars as you do, for there were no railways, with puffing engines and comfortable coaches; neither could he take a carriage drawn by swift and strong horses, for they too were unknown by the Koreans. Even if he had possessed horses and carriage, there were few roads over which they could have been driven.
Once outside, upon the road which wound around and over the high hills that surround the city, the pure country air seemed very sweet and refreshing to Yung Pak, who knew nothing of life outside Seoul. This was his first journey into the country, and the many strange sights drew exclamations of surprise and wonder from him.
The wall was surmounted by a rampart of plaited bamboo. In this wall were three gates, corresponding to entrances into the house itself. One gate, the largest, on the north side, was used only by Ki Pak himself, though after he grew older Yung Pak could enter this gate with his father. The second gate, on the east, was used by the family and friends of Ki Pak.
A twenty-mile march would bring the party to Rang-chyön, where it was proposed to spend the second night of the journey. The day was passed in much the same manner as the preceding one, though of course new scenes proved ever interesting to Yung Pak. During this day the party had to cross a river which was too deep to ford, and over which there was no sort of bridge.
You can easily imagine Yung Pak's joy and surprise one day when his father told him that he proposed to take his little son on his next journey. Ki Pak had been ordered by the king to go to Chang-an-sa, a city among the Diamond Mountains, near the eastern coast of Korea, and about eighty miles from Seoul.
"The soil here is of such a nature that it easily washes away, and if the town were unprotected the earth would soon be swept from beneath the houses. If you will look sharply, you will see outside the wall a deep trench which carries off the rushing water." As they were slowly riding along a road which wound around and over a high hill Yung Pak still kept his eyes wide open for strange sights.
On some of these hillsides little villages were perched. Yung Pak noticed that on the upper side of each of these hill-towns was a moon-shaped wall. "What is that wall for?" he asked Wang Ken as they passed one. "That protects the village in time of rainstorms," replied the tutor.
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