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Tonight, we'll be reading a classic Chinese tale, Bamboo and the Turtle from a Chinese wonder book

written by Norman Hinsdale Pittman in 1919.

The tale features a boy named bamboo and a special talking turtle. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

body into the softness of your bed. Now take a few deep breaths. Bamboo and the turtle.

A party of visitors had been seeing the sites in Shiling. They had just

passed down the holy way between the huge stone animals when bamboo, a little boy of 12, son of a keeper, rushed

out from his father's house to see the mandarins go by. Such a parade of great men he had never seen before,

even on the feast days. There were ten sedan chairs, with bearers dressed in flaming colors, ten long-handled

red umbrellas, each carried far in front of its proud owner and a long line of horsemen.

When this procession had filed past,amboo was almost ready to cry because he could not run after the sightseers

as they went from temple to temple and from Tomb to Tomb. But alas, his father had ordered him never to follow

tourists. If you do, they will take you for a beggar, bamboo.

He had said shrewdly, and if you're a beggar, then your daddy's one too.

Now they don't want any beggars around the royal tombs. So Bamboo had never known the pleasure of pursuing the rich. Many times he had turned back to the little mud house, almost broken-hearted at seeing

his playmates running full of glee after the great men's chairs.

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