Children of Cathay : a Story of the China of To-Day
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Mr. Wang was sent to market to buy these, and also brought a supply of red paper and door-gods. He was very busy with the schoolmaster, selecting lucky sentences, which Mr. Li wrote for him on the long scarlet strips, and on the last day of the year all the doors and door-posts were scrubbed, and Mr. Wang, with the help of his two sons, stuck the scrolls on the door-posts and the door-gods on the two leaves of each door. ' Ah ! ' said Mrs. Wang, with satisfaction, ' how well those new door-gods... look ! Now we shall have no evil spirits flying through our doors. They will be too much afraid of the gods. Look at their fierce beards and glaring eyes ! ' ' Why, mother,' said Kou, ' at school we had no door-gods, and I never saw any evil spirits there.' ' No door-gods ! ' cried Mrs. Wang ; ' how dared you sleep if you had nothing to protect you ? ' ' The teacher Ma said that the Heavenly Father guards His children while they sleep, and over our Kou's Return Home 109 bedrooms was written, " I will lay me down in peace and sleep, for Thou, Lord, makest me to dwell in safety," ' said Kou.
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