CONTENTS

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Ah Mee’s Invention[1]
Shen of The Sea[16]
How Wise were The Old Men[32]
Chop-Sticks[51]
Buy A Father[65]
Four Generals[79]
The Rain King’s Daughter[100]
Many Wives[115]
That Lazy Ah Fun[129]
The Moon Maiden[144]
Ah Tcha The Sleeper[159]
I wish It would Rain[173]
High as Han Hsin[189]
Contrary Chueh Chun[206]
Pies of The Princess[220]
As Hai Low kept House[235]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Oh, no, not at all. He was very careful not even to think of a dragon. He was a weighty elephant—amid the cabbages[5]
Then he seized the plaques and flung them from him[13]
We are the Shen, demons of the sea[21]
So the seventh demon sped away taking the sea with him[30]
It was the howl of a wolf[36]
Meng Hu could imagine a knife at his throat[42]
The king crawled under his throne[62]
The house of Weng Fu was luxurious in the extreme[69]
He kept his forehead tight-pressed to the floor[77]
The king and his generals gazed across the river[90]
More and more sad came the music[95]
At that same hour a basket was found in the garden[103]
So Chai Mi sat beside the river and sewed and wept[107]
Of course, they wore hideous false faces[111]
The first portrait he painted was that of Ying Ning, a monstrous ugly maiden[123]
“Broooomp”[137]
Doctor Chu Ping beamed upon him; “Ah Lun, my pearl, my jade, my orange tree, it is discovered”[142]
By look and action he was a maiden[148]
A whanging of wings that lifted . . . Up . . . Higher . . . Swifter[151]
When Ah Tcha had eaten his Evening Rice, he took lantern and entered the largest of his mills[162]
How could she make beds when her hair needed burnishing?[175]
Tiao Fu snatched up her little-used embroidery scissors. Snip, Snip, Snip[178]
“. . . And cut leaf-shaped pieces”[182]
Han Hsin raised a bridge from island to mainland[191]
“I—I—I—am hungry,” stammered Han Hsin[198]
Prince Chin Pa tried in vain to hold his followers[202]
Therefore—upon his donkey—the contrary husband started for Tsun Pu[209]
It was a well-plucked traveler who returned[213]
This nice large one is for your dinner[225]
He made a V of the bowstring[244]
The royal generals . . . knelt before Hai Low and bumped their heads in the dust[251]

SHEN OF THE SEA

SHEN OF THE SEA