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Identifier: nativesofnorther00croo (find matches)
Title: Natives of northern India
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Subjects: Ethnology -- India India -- Social conditions India -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. Constable and Company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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you will see the peasant father with his littlegirl babies in his arms and obviously proud of them. As the son of the landowner and merchant is at thevery earliest age introduced to life, and allowed toshare in the pursuits and amusements of his seniors,so the child of the peasant, as soon as the stage ofmaking mud pies has passed, is initiated into the craftor occupation of his father. The son of the carpenter,blacksmith, or weaver is soon taught to assist at thebench or forge or in laying out the warp. Among thefarming classes the children after babyhood has passedare occupied in various ways. The little boys andgirls take the cows and goats to pasture, and are heldresponsible that they do not trespass in the neighbour-ing fields, few of which are ever fenced. As they startin the morning they are given a drink of sour milk orwhey and a stale cake or two for their midday dinner.This they always supplement with coarse fruit orberries in their season, such as the wild plum, the No, 21
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■3- CHILD LIFE i8i corollas of the Mohwa, or other less nutritious pro-ducts of the jungle. During the main operations ofthe farm, they are employed in the lighter tasks ofdistributing water in the seed-beds, weeding or bird-scaring, gleaning and carrying the bundles to thethreshing-floor. This outdoor life forms the childs introduction tothat knowledge of Nature and her ways which he isconstantly extending in later years. As he drives thecattle to pasture in the grey dawn he watches the wolfor jackal returning from his nightly expeditions, thevultures hovering overhead on the look-out for carrion,the wild-fowl wheeling in flight from one tank toanother, the monkeys planning a raid on the standingcrops, the squirrels darting along the branches of thetrees. Every hedge and copse is full of animal or birdlife. The child knows where the wild boar has hislair in the reeds, the hole of the snake under theold banyan-tree. The habits of all the wild fauna hesoon learns to understand. He lo

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