s with Yung Pak, except sometimes when he would try to
plague him by breaking away and running--perhaps to the house-top or to
the neighbour's garden.

After a little while Yung Pak got used to these "monkey shines," and he
knew that his pet would not stay away long after mealtime.

As Yung Pak grew older he was allowed to play with other boys of his own
age. A favourite sport was Hunting the Ring. In this game the boys would
get together quite a large heap of sand. In this sand one of them would
hide a ring, and then the urchins would all get slender sticks and poke
around in the pile trying to find the ring. Whoever succeeded in getting
the ring on his stick won the game, and carried the prize home as a sign
of victory.

Sometimes Yung Pak would be the winner, and then he would march home
with great glee and show the trophy to his father.

One of the first things Yung Pak was taught was to be respectful to his
father. Never was he allowed to fail in this duty in the least. This
does not seem strange when we know what a sober, serious, dignified man
Yung Pak's father was. It would not do to allow his son to do anything
that would upset his dignity, though he loved him very much indeed.

It was far different with the boy's mother. Her little boy soon learned
that her wishes counted for very little in the family, and she never
ventured to rebuke him, no matter how seriously he might offend her or
what naughty thing he might do.

One queer thing about Yung Pak was the way he used to wear his hair.
While still very young his head was shaved, except a little round spot
on the very crown. Here it was allowed to grow, and as years went by it
grew quite long, and was braided in two plaits down his back.

When Yung Pak grew to be a man the long hair was knotted up on top of
his head, and for this reason many people call Koreans "Top-knots." But
of this arrangement of the hair we shall tell more farther on.

CHAPTER II.

YUNG PAK'S HOME

Ki Pak, Yung Pak's father, was one of the king's officials. On this
account his home was near the great palace of the king, in the city of
Seoul, the capital of the country.

This city did not look much like the ones in which you live. There were
no wide streets, no high buildings, no street-cars. Instead, there were
narrow, dirty lanes and open gutters. Shopkeepers not only occupied both
sides of the crowded streets, but half their wares were exposed in and
over the dirty g