[1] This species of garden-snail is found in China, and is about the size of a large Roman snail. It sucks the juice of the fruit while on the [[32]]trees, eats flies and bugs and, the Chinese say, is fond of sweets. It reproduces every thirty days by spreading a leaf with a sticky substance where the sun shines, the family of young snails coming in about fifteen days. [↑]
THE PROUD CHICKEN
傲雞
A widow named Hong-Mo lived in a little house near the market place. Every year she raised many hundreds of chickens, which she sold to support herself and her two children.
Each day the chickens went to the fields near by and hunted bugs, rice, and green things to eat. [[38]]
The largest one was called the king of the chickens because, of all the hundreds in the flock, he was the strongest. And for this reason he was the leader of them all.
He led the flock to new places for food. He could crow the loudest, and as he was the strongest, none dared oppose him in any way.