1. [FRONT]
  2. [YUNG PAK A STREET IN SEOUL]
  3. [ALL THE BOYS SIT UPON THE FLOOR]
  4. [HE MUST DROP TO HIS KNEES AND MAKE A PROFOUND SALUTE]
  5. [ON THE UPPER PART OF EACH OF THESE POSTS WAS A RUDE CARVING]
  6. [THE DAY WAS PASSED IN MUCH THE SAME MANNER AS THE PRECEDING ONE]

OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSIN

CHAPTER I.

SOME QUEER THINGS

Yung Pak was the very queer name of a queer little boy who lived in a queer house in a queer city. This boy was peculiar in his looks, his talk was in a strange tongue, his clothes were odd in colour and fit, his shoes were unlike ours, and everything about him would seem to you very unusual in appearance. But the most wonderful thing of all was that he did not think he was a bit queer, and if he should see one of you in your home, or at school, or at play, he would open wide his slant eyes with wonder at your peculiar ways and dress. The name of the country in which this little boy lived is Korea.

One thing about Yung Pak, though, was just like little boys everywhere. When he first came to his home in the Korean city, a little bit of a baby, his father and mother were very, very glad to see him. Your father and mother gave you no warmer welcome than the parents of this little Korean baby gave to him.