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Title: Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Fahs, Sophia Blanche Lyon, 1876-
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Publisher: New York : Methodist Book Concern
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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AND BLACK Big Sister to Spring Lotus, and let metake care of her while she goes to school.1So this happy cripple entered the school.During all the three years of her schoollife, Siung Ching-fung kept faithful to herpromise. Morning and night she dressedSpring Lotus; she combed her hair; manytimes during the day she carried her onher back up and down the stairs. She rana hundred and one errands for her. Thenwhen Spring Lotus finished her course, thequestion was again asked, What canSpring Lotus do? Again the courageouslittle cripple was ready for something hard.Back of the big hospital, above the placewhere once was the baby pond, there nowstood a neat two-story gray brick building.To the left of the doorway, on a brasstablet, were written these words: TheIda Gracey Cripples Home.: Spring Lotusalways liked to hear Dr. Stone tell of thebrave American cripple who had giventhem that home. Spring Lotus liked tobe wheeled over there where she couldwatch and listen. In one cheery school- 122
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Spring Lotus and her Big Sister Slie looked with her hunched back and her shrunken limbsno larger than a child of ten* GIRL OF THE LONELY ROOM room she saw cripple children at theirdesks studying. In another room she sawkindergarten children sitting in a circleof little chairs, singing and playing. Inanother room she watched older boys andgirls, all cripples, at their work benches,handling jig saws and making toy boats.Her Big Sister would wheel her up theinclined plane which took the place of astairway, and there she would see rowsof clean white beds in a light, cheery room.The very contrast reminded Spring Lotus ofthe lonely dark room in which she had spentmost of the hours of her childhood, and shesaid, We thank God for Ida Gracey.: For a while after her graduation SpringLotus was the house mother for thishousehold of cripples; and her faithfulBig Sister was her helper. One dayword came from the town of Tai Hu,three days journey from Kiukiang bywheelbarrow. Our little school buildi

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