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Title: Shans at home
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rs which we call a slightearthquake. When Shans feel such a shock they runout of their houses, and, kneeling down, answer thelittle men by calling out, We are here, we are here! Schoolboys, unless they live far from the monas-tery, return to their homes at sunset to sleep. When,however, they reach the age of eleven or twelve ^ theyleave their homes for a time, don the dress of amonk, and spend their days and nights in the mon-astery. When going through their course of religioustraining, as embryo monks, they obey the most rigidrules of fasting. At certain times they pass wholedays without eating, and on no occasion do they eatsolid food, between the hours of twelve in the morn-ing of one day and an early hour, before dawn, nextmorning. Towards evening they may be very hungry,but no boy tries to evade the rule. He would con-sider it dishonourable and unmanly to break his fastat a forbidden hour, so he accepts the rule quite They are sometimes older, if required to help in work at home.
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PIGS IN MONASTERIES 55 cheerfully, and probably quenches his hunger withlong drinks of water or tea. I do not propose to write a long account of aboys life at school: it very much resembles that ina Burmese monastery, and this has been fully andsympathetically described by Sir George Scott andMr. Fielding Hall. A monk— Sao-mun or Glorious Lord, as heis called—rarely leaves the monastery alone. A fileof little disciples follow behind: the tallest walksimmediately behind the monk, the smallest marchesat the end of the row. Each one carries a yellowpaper umbrella, or a big palm-leaf fan, and everyboy ought to look at the boy who precedes him, andnot allow his eyes to wander to right or left. As arule they are very circumspect and sedate, but some-times they are allowed to break the line. There aremany pigs in a Shan village, and whenever a littlepig lingers behind its companions it is attacked bythe village dogs. Sometimes a small pig keeps adetermined front to its enemies, and as lo

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