Each and All: The Seven Little Sisters Prove Their Sisterhood (Yesterday's Classics) by Andrews Jane

Author:Andrews, Jane [Andrews, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781599153087
Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
Published: 2010-11-14T15:41:52.585000+00:00

New Work for Pen-Se and Lin

DO you remember that Pen-se did not always live in the boat on the river? It was in the tea country among the hills that she was born, and now she is going back again to a place very near her old home, for a letter has come from her uncle in the Hoo-chow country, asking her father to come up and help him upon his silk farm. And very soon the boat and the ducks are sold to his neighbor Ah-foo, and Kang-hy and his wife, with their three children, are on their way to the Hoo-chow country.

Even the little girl can work on the silk farm; and you will realize that when you see what a silk farm is.

Here are rows and rows of low, bushy mulberry trees; and every morning, while the leaves are fresh with dew, the two little girls and their mother go out with their baskets to gather them. We will follow, and see what they do next. We carry our baskets to a bamboo house with curtained windows, standing cool and quiet at the farther side of the field. Kang-hy is there before us, and when he sees our fresh leaves he opens the door a little way and says, "Go in carefully; don't disturb them"; and then he quickly shuts the door, for fear of letting in too much light.

Do you think there is a baby asleep in there, that we must be so quiet? Look about you; there is no baby to be seen. But little trays, something like sieves, are everywhere, and Pen-se is going from one to another and supplying each with her fresh mulberry leaves. And presently all around us rises a curious little sound of thousands of little mouths at work munching and munching. Peep into this nearest tray, and look at the hungry silkworms having their breakfast. Were there ever busier or greedier eaters? But when one has a great deal of work to do one must eat to get strength for doing it; and these little worms have each three hundred yards of silk to spin before the month is out. So they eat and grow, and grow and eat, as busily as possible; and when they get too big for their skins they just take them off, and a new, soft, elastic one comes in place of the old, and gives them a fine chance of growing and growing more and more.

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