 one day, when we went to pay a visit to some families of Chinese Christian peasants, we met, near a farm, a young lad, who was taking a buffalo to graze along our path. We asked him carelessly, as we passed, whether it was yet noon. The child raised his...  Ten thousand wonderful things - Page 299by Edmund Fillingham King - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...purpose, if we may believe, the following story, which is related by M. Hue, in his Travels in China : "One day, when we went to pay a visit to some families...child raised his head to look at the sun, but it was bidden behind thick clouds, and he could read no answer there. The sky is. 10 cloudy," said he, -but... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 pages
...tell my wife that she has got asoul. She will bo alittle astonished I think.' " C\T'S-ETE CLOCK. " One day, when we went to pay a visit to some families...raised his head to look at the sun, but it was hidden ichind thick clouds, and he could read no answer here. " ' The sky is so cloudy,' said he, ' but wait... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...his recent work on the Chinese Empire, tells us that " one day, when we went to pay a visit to sume families of Chinese Christian peasants, we met, near...yet noon. The child raised his head to look at the suu, but it was hidden behind thick clouds, and he could read no answer there. ' The sky is so cloudy,'... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...for discussion. FÏUXE CLOCKS. — M. Hue, in his recent work ou the Chinese Empire, tells us that "one day, when we went to pay a visit to some families...we met, near a farm, a young lad, who was taking a Imffalo to graze along our path. We asked him carelessly, as we passed, whether it was yet noon. The... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1855 - 432 pages
...a household clock — which seems, however, to be the case in China. ' One day,' says our author, ' when we went to pay a visit to some families of Chinese Christian peasants, we met, near a farm, a voung lad who was taking a buffalo to graze along our path. \Ve asked him carelessly, as we passed,... | |
 | Sir Oscar Oliphant - China - 1857 - 260 pages
...surprise our clock-makers. It is certainly a custom of pure Chinese origin. " One day," says our author, " when we went to pay a visit to some families of Chinese...clouds, and he could read no answer there. ' The sky is so cloudy,' said he, ' but wait a moment ; ' and with these words he ran towards the farm, and came... | |
 | sir Oscar Oliphant - 1857 - 258 pages
...surprise our clock-makers. It is certainly a custom of pure Chinese origin. " One day," says our author, " when we went to pay a visit to some families of Chinese...clouds, and he could read no answer there. 'The sky is so cloudy,' said he, 'but wait a moment; ' and with these words he ran towards the farm, and came back... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...reeent work on the Chinese Empire, tells us that " one day, when we went to pay a visit to some familios of Chinese Christian peasants, we met, near a farm, a young lad, who was taking a bufialo to graze along our path. We asked him carelessly, as we passed, whether it was yet noon. The... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...is a hare at Hampstead and a cat at London!" A CHINESE CLOCK. ONE day, a French traveller in China met, near a farm, a young lad, who was taking a buffalo to graze. He asked him carelessly as he passed whether it was yet noon. The child raised his head to look at... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...being in fifty minutes. FELINE CLOCKS. M. Hue, in his recent work on the Chinese Empire, tells us that "one day, when we went to pay a visit to some families...clouds, and he could read no answer there. 'The sky is so cloud}',' said he; ' but wait a moment;' and with these words he ran towards the farm, and came... | |
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