Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
CHAPTER III.
LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY.
Arrangement of a Chinese House.--Crowd in Streets.--My First Walk in Chungking City.--Presents.--Cats, Rats, and Eggs.--Paying a Call.--Ladies Affectionate.--Shocked at European Indecency.--Cost of Freight.--Distance by Post.--Children's Pleasures.--Precautions during Drought.--Guild Gardens.--Pretty Environs.--Opium Flowers, and Smokers.--Babble of Schools.--Chinese Girl-child 74