Isaac Taylor Headland, who taught for years in Peking, collected the rhymes Chinese mothers and nurses sang to children and put them into English verse. Babies are hushed to sleep, a little girl lists the thread and needles she wants, a bride asks for powder and rouge, and a little bald-headed baby is told his father is drawing water in the south.
A charming window on Chinese childhood a century ago, for families who love nursery rhymes. Download the free EPUB.