a time? That was almost the way
that questions were asked by the two boys, back and forth, so quick
and fast that there was hardly time to answer each one. The boy from
Shanghai found as many things strange to him as the New York boy would
have seen in China. Percy, and May, although she could not understand
half she heard, were full of wonder as Knox told of living on a boat
in the river, of so many boats around them, where people lived crowded
together as closely as houses could be on land. He told of the cities,
of narrow, crooked streets, all the way under awnings, to be shielded
from the hot sun; of riding many miles in a wheel-barrow, with a
Chinaman to push it along the road. They all laughed when Percy said
they called their cousin Elsie "a Chinese baby;" and the grown folks
helped to tell about the black-eyed babies over there, wrapped up in
wadded comforts and placed standing, a great, round roll, in a tall
basket, instead of a cradle. Percy thought the best thing he heard was
of a boy in a royal family. He had to be well taught, for he must be a
wise scholar in Chinese learning, but no one dared to touch or hurt
him; so a poor boy of low rank was hired and kept in the house to take
all the whippings for him; and whenever the young prince deserved
correction, the bamboo rod was well laid on the poor boy's back. What
would you think of such a plan? Elsie's father and mother were going
back to China, but they were not willing that Knox should grow up
there; he must go to some good school and stay in this country. Even
little Elsie they dared not trust out of their sight among the
Chinese.

And so for the love of the dear Master, who said,--"Go and teach all
nations," they were willing to leave father and mother, and home,
loving sister and friends, even their own young children, for His
sake.

Don't you believe our heavenly Father will watch over Knox and Elsie,
and make them grow up wise and true; ready to go back to the land
where they were born, to carry on the good work their father and
mother are doing in that strange, far-off country?

Do you know of any ways in which children at home can help such work
in China, or in other far-off foreign lands?

KITTY STRIKER.

Little Kitty Striker saw
A handsome, fat, old goose
Out a-walking with her gosling.
And she said,--"Now what's the use,
Of letting that old waddler have
Such a pretty thing as that?
I'll run ri