THE CHINESE
BOY AND GIRL



BY
ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND
OF PEKING UNIVERSITY



Author of Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes





PREFACE



No thorough study of Chinese child life can be made until
the wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken down and the
homes of the East are thrown open to the people of the
West. Glimpses of that life however, are available, sufficient
in number and character to give a fairly good idea of
what it must be. The playground is by no means always
hidden, least of all when it is the street. The Chinese
nurse brings her Chinese rhymes, stories and games into
the foreigner's home for the amusement of its little ones.