— 12 —
her feet old shoes with no heels ― as she advances a step ― it sounds t'alalà — and of her ten toes three peep out of her shoes.
VII
痲子痲
上樹爬
狗又咬
人又拿
嚇的痲子摔了個痲跟頭
痲大錢
買了個痲燒餅
痲子吃
痲子看
痲子打架痲子勸
痲衙役
拿板子
單打痲子的痲腿子
NOTES
This song is profusedly interspersed with the character 痲 ma2 whose meaning is "smallpox." This disease is so common in China that very often children who have been sick with it and keep marks
