The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland
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the place where it is found. The above is the Shantung
version. In Peking it is as follows: A great, big brother, And a little brother, too, A big bell tower, And a temple and a show, And little baby wee, wee, Always wants to go. The following rhyme explains itself: The nurse knocks on the forehead, then touches the eye, nose, ear, mouth and chin successively, as she repeats: Knock at the door, See a face, Smell an odor, Hear a voice, Eat your dinner, Pull your chin, or Ke chih, ke chih. Tickling the child's neck with the last two expressions. We have in English a rhyme: |
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