CHOH LIN

About forty years ago there lived in China, in a little village standing on a bay of the ocean, a Chinaman named Sol Law Lee. The village in which Mr. Lee lived was at the foot of a mountain, and so was named Tay Soa, or " Foot Mountain."
He was the richest man in the place and had the finest house there, yet if you had seen it you would have thought that it was only a number of out-houses for cattle, connected by two walls.

One day there was born in this house a boy- baby. Mr. and Mrs. Lee were very proud of their little son, and when the father met friends on the street or at his place of business he was glad to have them bow and, as they clasped and shook their own hands, say to him, " Ka li kiong-hi " (" unto you congratulations"). When the little fellow had lived a whole month his relatives and friends from the village and the other places around gathered at Mr. Lee's house to see the new-comer and to have a grand feast in his honor, as well as to be present at the ceremony of shaving the child's head. Each brought some present for the little fellow or ...

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