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Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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? The mule isa hundred thousand times bigger than you are. But Thumb replied: If my mother puts the reinson the mule and lifts me up, so that I can sit in themules ear, I shall tell it to go to this side or to thatside. So the father, being a good-natured man, said: Well, we can try for once. So saying he went off to his work in the jungle. After a little time the mother brought the mule, andshe lifted her tiny son, placing him, as he directed, inits ear, then explained to him where he should go tofind his father in the jungle. Thumb acted as a big man, ordering the mule whereto go; calling to it, when it came to turns in the road,* Go carefully, go carefully. As he thus spoke, two men came out of the jungle;they heard his voice, but seeing no man were verymuch astonished. They said to each other: Howcan it be that a mule is speaking! Let us follow andsee where it is going. So they followed it into the jungle, till they reachedthe place where the father of Thumb was cutting fire-wood.
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THE STORY OF LITTLE THUMB 269 When little Thumb saw his father he exclaimed :Oh, father! take me from the mules ear, for I amvery tired. The father of Thumb lifted him down, and the twomen who had followed were very much surprised.They said to each other: If we could have this littlefellow for our own, how much money we might gainby making an exhibition of him at the big festivals.Let us try to buy him. They went up to the man,saying, Will you sell your son to us ? We shall takegood care of him, and treat him well. But the father answered: I cannot sell my littleboy, because he brings much happiness to our home. Thumb climbed up his fathers clothes until hereached his shoulder, then he whispered into his ear: Sell me, father, and do not be anxious about me, forI shall certainly return in safety to you. The father listened to his little boy, and sold him tothe two men for a large sum of money. The men were delighted, and took Thumb withthem. They asked him how they should carry him,and

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