Much would like to go.
Ah! this world’s an odd one,
Things don’t even up;
When we want a quartful,
We only get a cup.
(1600)
Inexperience Re-enforced—See [Encouragement].
INFANTICIDE IN CHINA
Missionaries see little bodies floating upon the scum of the ponds or thrown out by the roadside and half-eaten by the wolfish dogs. It is not necessary to open the little bundle of matting lying by the side of the city wall to know what it contains. Shanghai has its hexagonal tower into which their bodies can be cast. Nanking has its temple to which may be brought any little dead body which the parents care not to bury themselves.
(1601)