“My name is Yan Lu and I attend the Princess.”
“How I would like to see her!” exclaimed Ray.
“Then follow me,” said Yan Lu. “I will hide thee behind a great plant and thou canst see the Princess when she comes.”
Ray followed Yan Lu and as they went along he could not help looking at her feet. Such tiny feet he had never seen! They were so small that she could hardly walk. She took little mincing steps and rested a great many times, looking behind at Ray and smiling.
“Are your shoes too tight?” asked our little boy, feeling sorry for Yan Lu and glad that his own shoes were so comfortable.
But Yan Lu looked down at her little feet and only laughed and then glanced slyly at Ray and laughed again. He began to think that perhaps they did not hurt her, she laughed so much about it.
Ray noticed that her hair was all done up in rolls and had great pins sticking through it.
“She is really a very odd little girl,” thought Ray.
They came to a large plant and Yan Lu told Ray to stand behind it. Then she waved her fan to him and took her little mincing steps again and walked off. In a few seconds Ray saw a procession coming. He kept very still, and as it came nearer he saw that four tall men were carrying a sort of chair in which a little girl was sitting.
“That must be the Princess,” thought Ray, and just then he caught sight of his little friend Yan Lu who walked behind the chair.