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fur and a jacket lined with ermine fur ― and has with her a pair of side-pouches with flowers worked on it by the small needle ― then, comes from the south direction an Imperial body-guard of the second class ― who leaning to the cart-door asks his sister-in-law ― sister-in-law, sister-in law, where do you go? ― "I am going towards South to pay a visit to my family" ― "When you have already paid a visit to your family, come to my house. ― I have at home ready-cooked old rice ― tartar cakes and tea milk ― but the Annamite betel-nuts cut in four pieces ― shall break the protruding old front teeth of you worrying thing!"
III
裼樹葉兒
曄拉拉
小孩兒睡覺找他媽
乖乖寳貝兒你睡罷
螞虎子來了我打他
NOTES
楊樹 yang2 shu4, the poplar (latin populus) this tree is in China very commonly seen in burial grounds. The Chinese say that its leaves stir even
