Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
"I hope my word is always a word of honour; I thought everybody's word ought to be that," Sybil Graham replied a little proudly, for when she had run quickly to bring such important news to her brother, she could not help feeling hurt that he should refuse to believe what she...
"I hope my word is always a word of honour; I thought everybody's word ought to be that," Sybil Graham replied a little proudly, for when she had run quickly to bring such impor...
2. CHAPTER II.As far as money was concerned, Mr. Graham had no anxieties, for being the only son of a very wealthy man, who had lost his wife some time before he died himself, Mr. Graham had,...
3. CHAPTER III."WILL you please tell us to-day, father, something about the religion of the Chinese? I know they worship idols, but how do they believe in them?" Sybil asked, as soon as their...
4. CHAPTER IV."I FORGOT to ask you, father," Leonard said, about a week later--for during that time he and his sister had been otherwise engaged, and had therefore not come to hear anything m...
5. CHAPTER V."WELL, so it is to be about tea to-day," Mr. Graham at once began. "Supposing I do not know anything about it, though; what are we to do then? I know tea comes from an evergreen...
6. CHAPTER VI.NO more story Peep-shows of what might be seen in China, no more wondering what the Celestials would be like, for Sybil and Leonard had now landed on Chinese soil, and were them...
7. CHAPTER VII.ABOUT the middle of November, eleven weeks after Mr. Graham and his family had left England, they arrived in the beautiful island of Formosa, whither they had crossed over from...
8. CHAPTER VIII.MR. GRAHAM had thought of visiting Chaou-chou, a very fertile city on the river Han, but was advised not to do so, as foreigners are disliked by its inhabitants; and he was ther...
9. CHAPTER IX.A PASSENGER-BOAT conveyed our little travellers, and their parents, in three days, from Hong-Kong to Macao, a pretty little sea-side place at the entrance of the Bocca Tigris, a...
10. CHAPTER X.THE Street of Apothecaries was no exception to the general rule that Sybil had laid down. It also was very narrow, and, like many other streets in Canton, was so covered over at...
11. CHAPTER XI.A FORTNIGHT later Mr. Graham saw a large, Leonard a small, portion of a funeral procession, and Sybil was very anxious afterwards to hear all about it, for Leonard had told her...
12. CHAPTER XII.SYBIL had made several friends amongst Cantonese ladies and children, and some very pleasant afternoons had she spent with them. The girls, she noticed, generally wore cotton tu...